During the Great Kanto Earthquake ... who was appointed as home minister the day after the earthquake. Goto devised a grand plan to reconstruct the capital, which involved large-scale rezoning ...

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 ...

“Glass dry plates are vulnerable, so it is something of a miracle that so many plates survived after nearly 100 years ... at the Time of the Great Kanto Earthquake,” until April 18.

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

Even after the quake itself subsided, the tragedy of the Great Kanto Earthquake was only beginning. An unlikely "fire tornado" consumed a site where 40,000 evacuees had gathered, leaving few ...

Schematic figure of the subduction zone underneath the Kanto region (left ... the plates slip and grind against each other, causing an earthquake. Researchers have long thought that this force ...

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

A giant hammer-shaped crane erected here in 1914 to handle ship cargo stands as a lasting symbol of the Port of Yokohama's industrial heri･･･ ...

In particular, my project investigates the role that the British government played in response to the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1923 ... relations between Britain and Japan changed after the ...