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This combo of two photos shows initial destruction and reconstruction after the March 10, 1945 firebombing. The top photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows an incendiary bombed Matsuya Asakusa department store, center, after Tokyo firebombing. The bottom photo taken 70 years later on March 7, 2015, shows still-in-use Matsuya department store in Asakusa district in Tokyo. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko)