Strolling Through The Centuries In The World’s Largest City
One of my great delights is that I get to work in an office located in the heart of Tokyo, the world’s largest city with a population of 37.4 million, and I’m never more than a few footsteps away from incredible historical highlight. I got to spend my lunch break learning about Kamakura Bridge, which is located in Tokyo’s central Marunouchi district, and which I discovered bears the scars of the first sustained air raids the Americans unleashed during World War II. There is a monument on the bridge noting that bullet marks remain from the November 1944 attack. The Americans would obliterate Tokyo in a series of sustained raids,…