Effect of Strategic Bombing on Kyoto

Some of the damage done.

Map.

Other scenes

Kyoto was the former capital of Japan and it was an economically important city.

Kyoto was not very Westernized and its building zones were not really separated much.

Absenteeism went up due to the air attacks and many people evacuated into the countryside.

There were still lots of workers, but their discipline fell.

Aircraft plants had the worst labor problems.

Kyoto was not heavily bombed.

Kyoto was not significant in relation to war industries for several reasons.

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