Katsumoto Saotome, chronicler of Tokyo firebombing, dies at 90

Katsumoto Saotome, who as a 12-year-old schoolboy survived the American firebombing of Tokyo during World War II and later spent decades chronicling in books and documentary films the largely forgotten episode that killed as many as 100,000 civilians and left about 1 million homeless, died May 10 in Saitama, a city north of Tokyo. He was 90.