Yoshiko Hashimoto and her baby survived. But as many as 100,000 Japanese civilians, including her mother, father and a sister, perished in the firestorm of March 10, 1945.

Yoshiko Yamaguchi, 94, a Japanese film idol who became one of the country's biggest film stars during and after World War II, died Sept. 7 in Tokyo of heart failure, according to Japanese public ...