The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

The bombing of Tokyo, often referred to as a " firebombing ", was conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II.

The Operation Meetinghouse firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9 / 10 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II ; greater than Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki as single events.

The large-scale industrial zones of the coastal Tokyo region have caused significant air and water pollution.

However, his grave, formerly at the Zōshigaya Cemetery in Tokyo, was destroyed by American air raids in World War II.

Tokyo is an hour away by air, about 3 and a half hours by train, and about 10 – 12 hours by car.

Namerikawa is located 1 hour by air ( via Toyama Airport ), 3 hours by rail and 5 hours by car from Tokyo.

On September 15, 2001, coming home from her state visit to Japan, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo flew to Legazpi non-stop from Tokyo using a chartered PAL Airbus A320, highlighting the capability of the airport to handle international air traffic.

* 1942 Tokyo is bombed in the Doolittle Raid, the first American air raid against Japan in World War II

Additional capital was raised from Kyocera, Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance, Hokkaido Electric Power Company and other institutional investors, as well as from Hokkaido local governments seeking less expensive air service to Tokyo.

Riders passed through scenes of barnstormers, an M-130, Tokyo and Paris in the 1930s, the jet age, and the future of air travel, and appeared to enter a working jet engine.

Doolittle of course was well known to American airmen as the famous " Tokyo Raider " and former air racer.

The goal is to reach Tokyo and destroy the entire Japanese air fleet.

TV Tokyo was established in 1951 and started broadcasting in 1961 and air date on April 12, 1964 by the Japan Science Promotion Foundation.

* March 9 – 10 – The Great Tokyo Air Raid ( American term Operation Meetinghouse ), an overnight incendiary bombing raid by B-29 Superfortresses on Tokyo, is one of the most destructive air raids in history.

* June 18 – A U. S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster II crashes near Tokyo, Japan, killing 129 people in the worst air crash in history at the time and the first with a confirmed death toll exceeding 100.

In addition, Japanese and Korean air carriers always have flights from Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Singapore to Northeast Asian destinations like Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, and Busan

Similar systems are being explored to reduce vibration in washing machines, air conditioning compressors, rockets and satellites, and one has even been installed in Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo as an earthquake shock absorber.

The show was originally cancelled in the US in February 2005, when Mew Mew Power ( aka " Tokyo Mew Mew ") was airing in its slot February 19, 2005, and it was originally intended to be a sneak peek for the series to air September 2005 with Cramp Twins continuing to air there, but 4Kids TV decided to cancel The Cramp Twins to put Mew Mew Power in its slot.

He bitterly resented his superiors, who, while safe in bunkers in Tokyo, ordered Kurita to fight to the death against hopeless odds and without air cover.

Unlike many other structures in the area, including the Sensō-ji, the shrine ( along with the Nitenmon ) survived the Tokyo air raids of 1945.

* 1945 – The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.

The initial raids were carried out by the Twentieth Air Force operating out of mainland China in Operation Matterhorn under XX Bomber Command, but these could not reach Tokyo.

The area was heavily damaged by US bombing raids during World War II, particularly the March 1945 firebombing of Tokyo.

Only the raids on Hamburg ( July 24, 1943 – July 29, 1943 ), the March 9 – 10, 1945 firebombing of Tokyo and the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima ( August 6, 1945 ) and Nagasaki ( August 9, 1945 ) killed more people through a single attack.

American bombing raids had already destroyed his Tokyo residence, and he was forced to sell his country villa to pay taxes.

On June 5, 1945, Rivero was present during the first carrier raids against Tokyo during operations in the vicinity of Nansei Shoto.

* 1945: Tokyo home destroyed in air raids.

VF-84 took part in the invasion of Iwo Jima ; raids on Tokyo and other targets in Japan ; the discovery and sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest warship in the world ; and support of the invasion of Okinawa, including combat air patrol over the invasion fleet to defend against kamikaze attack, ground support, and combat air patrol over targets on Okinawa.

* 1945 Head Office in Ohsaki, Tokyo, destroyed by air raids.

It is notable for surviving the American air raids during World War II, whereas most other historical sites in Tokyo were turned into rubble.

He is from Tokyo, Japan, though his mother gave birth to him in Hiroshima to escape intensifying air raids during World War II.

He was assigned to draw Army pilots in their varied duties including the Tokyo Superfortress raids and sketches of the Army in Guam, Puerto Rico, Greenland, the Baffin Islands, and in Newfoundland — where he slept in an igloo.

The oyabun was entertaining a group of dignitaries, the secretary said, businessmen from Tokyo for the most part, and Kayabashi wished to show them the mission.

The cold lingered, making sleep difficult that night, and he remained in bed still the next morning, now unable to keep from thinking about the inexplicable sight of burning metal, the wretched sound, the unbearable feeling of having been to a remote Tokyo temple at some earlier time in his life.

Category: People from Tokyo

# An aircraft should be “ in flight ” ( that is, according to Article 1, paragraph 3 of the Tokyo Convention, from the moment when power is applied for the purpose of take-off until the moment when the landing run ends );

* 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.

Category: People from Tokyo

It is located less than five minutes by rail from Tokyo Station.

It brought about the decision to clear the 30, 000 square metres of land in order to keep future fires from getting into inner Tokyo city.

* In Tokyo, a Ghetto of Geeks from Washington Post

Apart from the head office building and the R & D building of Capcom Co., Ltd., both located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, the Japanese parent company also has a branch office in the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Every year many teams from all over Asia converge in Tokyo to compete.

The series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3, 1998 until June 19, 1998, broadcasting only twelve episodes and a special due to its controversial content.

* 1994 – A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila to Tokyo, killing one.

The word ' Miyake ' comes from Miyake-jima which is an island of the Izu Island chain and located at 180 km south of Tokyo.

" The 1940 celebrations also included a concert at the Tokyo Kabukiza for which new works were commissioned from composers in France, Hungary, England ( Benjamin Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem, ultimately rejected ), and Germany ( Richard Strauss, Japanische Festmusik ).

The movie was shown in cinemas every day of the week for 28 years, from 1975 until 2003 — mainly in Norway, Moscow and Tokyo.

Finally, Minamoto Yoritomo ( 1147 – 1199 ) rose from his headquarters at Kamakura ( in the Kantō region, southwest of modern Tokyo ) to defeat the Taira, and with them the child emperor Emperor Antoku they controlled, in the Genpei War ( 1180 – 1185 ).

The JSDF desperately tries everything to stop Godzilla from entering Tokyo.

Kong then attacks Tokyo and holds Fumiko, a woman from a train and Sakurai's sister, hostage.

The Kilaaks then turn their next major attack on Tokyo, and without serious opposition, become arrogant in their aims, until the UNSC discover the Kilaaks have switched to broadcasting the control signals from their base under the Moon's surface.

He then ravages on Tokyo as payback for the Japanese attempting to erase him from existence, and Shindo is killed ; though not before he and Godzilla share a brief moment of the two remembering each other from when they first met on Lagos Island in 1944, and Godzilla is seemingly sad for once.

Okumura and his friends realize that Godzilla reacts to the same signal as birds, and Professor Hayashida decides to use this method to lure Godzilla away from Tokyo.

Meanwhile, the Russians have their own plans to counter the threat posed by Godzilla, and a Russian control ship disguised as a freighter in Tokyo Harbor prepares to launch a nuclear missile from one of their orbiting satellites should Godzilla attack.

* Part of Christopher Young's score from Def Con 4 in several scenes ( including Godzilla's attack on the Soviet submarine, the scene where the SDF armored division arrives in Tokyo Bay, and Okumura's near-death experience during the helicopter extraction in Tokyo ).