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 ...

Yes, Yokosoka, the great naval station was a total wreck ... (AP Photo) See more archival images of the Kanto Earthquake. ‘I’ve got to push on. We’ve got to get through.’ ...

Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...

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 Great East Japan Earthquake was measured at a magnitude 9.0, the largest ever recorded in Japan's history. The earthquake ...

One of a series of lithographs entitled Teito daishinsai gahō (Pictorial of the Imperial Capital Great Earthquake Disaster) published Oct 20, 1923 by Urashimadō gakyoku, Tokyo. This print ...

In particular, my project investigates the role that the British government played in response to the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1923. The earthquake killed between 91,000 and 140,000 people ...