[Chainmail]

It's hard to pick out what the motivation for publishing these photos is at this point. It's a low-level, reasonably precise attack against what appears to be legitimate military targets while the war was still going. The "incendiary" weapons the author cite appear to be secondary explosions of the target - explosives within the target complexes going off. The article also says that these photos are going to be printed on leaflets to be circulated at schools.

If so, they should include a paragraph on the consequences of attacking a major nation without warning or declaration of war. Or keeping legitimate prisoners of war as slave labor and starving and beating them until a large portion are dead. Or refusing surrender until it became necessary use extraordinary measures to finally subdue them.

They reaped what they sowed.

[Vermont Lt]

I think they published them because they found them interesting. Most of them are not.

I did not read anything that suggested the raid was anything other than a normal, every day, bombing run. For a city that size, I am kind of surprised that much of it was still standing.

[sushiman]

These are precious documents communicating the fierceness of the air raids. I want them to deepen people’s thoughts about war,” Takatani said. His network will produce 5,000 leaflets with the photos printed on them, and distribute them to each school in the city of Kumamoto as aids for peace studies.

It’s historical . As it says in the article , up until now there was only 1 photo of the raid .