Word: akasaka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacks within 48 hours more than 1,000 B-29s sent fire crackling through the heart of the world's third largest city. And sacrilege upon sacrilege, Radio Tokyo gasped that "the honorable teahouse in the honorable garden of the Imperial Palace . . . and the honorable grounds of the Akasaka detached palace* were destroyed...
...half miles west of the Imperial Palace, Akasaka is known as the "Crown Prince's Palace...