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There was a rationale for the merciless bombing of residential areas of a Japanese city. The war effort was sustained by thousands of small machine shops throughout the residential areas of the city that were under contract with large corporations. Where I lived in tokyo in there 70s and 80s there were still numerous small metal-working, printing, and machine shops under contract to the large corporations working 18 hours a day when a large order came in. When business was good, they were paid on time. When it wasn't, they had to wait to be paid at the mercy of the corporations that paid them.