The Great Kantō earthquake (関東大地震, Kantō dai-jishin, Kantō ō-jishin) also known in Japanese as Kantō daishinsai (関東大震災) [11] [12] struck the Kantō Plain on the main …

Aug 28, 2023 · The Great Kanto Earthquake, also called the Tokyo-Yokohama Earthquake, of 1923 caused an estimated death toll of more than 140,000 and made some 1.5 million people …

The date was September 1, 1923, and the event was the Great Kanto Earthquake, at the time considered the worst natural disaster ever to strike quake-prone Japan. The initial jolt was …

Nov 30, 2019 · The Great Kanto Earthquake, also sometimes called the Great Tokyo Earthquake, rocked Japan on Sept. 1, 1923. Although both were devastated, the city of Yokohama was hit …

Sep 1, 2023 · The Great Kantō earthquake struck the Kanto Plain on the Japanese main island of Honshu at 11:58 in the morning on Saturday, Sept. 1, 1923. Varied accounts say the duration …

Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923, earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area near noon on September 1, 1923. The death toll from the …

5 days ago · The quake may have been the catalyst, but the social conditions that turned Koreans into targets were already deeply embedded in Japan’s colonial hierarchy. When remembering …

Aug 5, 2023 · The Great Kantō Earthquake (関東大地震 Kantō daijishin) was a massive tremor that hit Tōkyō and the surrounding prefectures on 1 September 1923. The Japanese term …

Aug 31, 2023 · In 1923, at a time when a reinvented Japan had bloomed as a global power, a violent earthquake razed the country's bustling imperial capital and killed more than 100,000 …

Utilizing a rich array of vivid source material, this website introduces key aspects of Tokyo’s destruction, the tragedies and hardships suffered by so many of its inhabitants in the …