On the morning of September 1, 1923, an earthquake with a magnitude believed to be around 7.9 rattled the Kanto region. The ...

While researching records and books about the massacre of Koreans that took place at the time of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, several words caught my eye. Rice riots, rumors and a typhoon.

On Sept. 1, 1923, Tokyo and Yokohama were engulfed by horrific fires spawned by the Great Kanto Earthquake. A century later, Japanese should ask themselves whether the nation’s capital ...

(USGS/George A. Lang Collection) See more archival images of the Kanto Earthquake. I. As if it had slid suddenly into a sea of tossing, choppy waves, the coach pitched up and down, lurched ...

Frank Lloyd Wright expert Tim Totten and Dana Thomas House Foundation past president Cinda Klickna, spoke to Community Voices ...

NHK's archives house an extensive collection of photographs and videos of central Tokyo taken soon after the Great Kanto Earthquake that hit eastern Japan in 1923. In a then-and-now series ...

Great Kanto Earthquake caused violent tremors, tsunami and mudslides The magnitude 7.9 Great Kanto Earthquake hit at 11:58 a.m. on September 1, 1923. It caused violent tremors, tsunami and mudslides.

The government released a list Tuesday of over 230,000 Korean victims during the Japanese colonial occupation of the peninsula (1910-45), the first publication of such a list.

Campaigners fight to keep the massacre of ethnic Koreans in the spotlight, despite the government's disinterest in interrogating the dark history.