The film showcases Tokyo as a bustling metropolis with over 10 million residents, highlighting Japan's extraordinary post-war economic growth, which has made it a modern nation outside the West.

More than 105,000 people were estimated killed in a single night, but the devastation was largely eclipsed by the two nuclear bomb attacks and then forgotten during Japan’s post-war rush to rebuild.

described the Tokyo bombing as a landmark event in modern air warfare. Ironically, the U.S. commander was later decorated by the Japanese government in the new post-war security context.