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The six Tohoku prefectures, Tohoku Tourism Promotion Organization, and Tohoku Kizuna Festival Executive Committee will hold the “Tohoku Four Seasons & Tohoku Kizuna Festival” at the 2025 Osaka, Kansai ...
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[Guest essay] Fighting Sinophobia with solidarity
The extreme Sinophobia rampant within online communities and the far-right “Taegeukgi rallies” was being displayed on the streets in broad daylight. Rather than be wary of the ramifications of such ...
REAL QUICK, I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING THAT’S INTERESTING. WE’VE HAD FIRES, WE’VE HAD TORNADOES. LET’S JUST ADD A EARTHQUAKE TO THAT. WHY DON’T WE? THIS IS THE LATEST UPDATE. ACTUAL MAGNITUDE THREE.
The capital of Japan experiences thousands of tremors annually, and its history is marked by devastating quakes, including the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, which claimed over 140,000 lives.
TOKYO – Sept 1 marks a century since a magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo, leaving some 100,000 people dead or missing, while fires razed much of the city to the ...
The event marked the 101st anniversary of the Chinese victims who were killed following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan. [Photo by Jiang Xueqing/chinadaily.com.cn] A memorial service was ...
The starting point for this is the Great Kanto Earthquake that occurred in 1923. This disaster sparked a wide variety of mis- and disinformation termed“disaster rumors” about “volcanic ...
From the January 1924 issue: A harrowing first-hand account of the Great Kanto earthquake At the turn of the 20th century, California was home to only a few seismographs, primarily inside domed ...
A recently discovered film reel showing the immediate aftermath of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake is in such good condition that the expressions of survivors can clearly be discerned. The reel ...
Fire can be the deadliest earthquake impact, carrying much of the blame for both the 1906 San Francisco and 1923 Great Kanto earthquake casualties. Why no fires this time? Hualien is a concrete ...