Yawata

“Today it is quite difficult for foreigners to get ... jobs as security guards,” said Shigeki Yawata, security manager at security firm Executive Protection Inc, which has employed non-Japanese for more than a dozen years.

On June 15, 1944, a squadron of 75 American Superfortress B-29s left China to destroy the Imperial Iron and Steel Works in Yawata, Japan.

The 47 bombers that made it to Yawata dropped more than 365 bombs.

For the rest of the war, the city of Yawata was firebombed in an unsuccessful campaign to destroy the iron and steel works.

A B-29 carrying the atomic bomb Fat Man made runs over Yawata, but thick smoke from the ground made targeting impossible, and the bombers headed to the next target on the list, the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works in Nagasaki.