This year the remembrance is even more poignant, marking a century since the Great Kanto earthquake leveled Japan’s most populous area. The Sept. 1, 1923, earthquake is memorable in many ways.

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, a ...

Just before noon on September 1, 1923, a massive, 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck the southern Kanto region, which includes Tokyo. According to a survey by the city of Tokyo in 1925, the total number ...

On this occasion of 100 years after the Great Kanto Earthquake, the author examined the roles and missions of the media in their efforts to prevent damage by complex disasters, ...

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, we ...

TOKYO -- Tokyo marked the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake on Friday. The earthquake that hit central Tokyo at 11:58 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1 ...

A century has passed since the Great Kanto earthquake on Sept. 1, 1923, which led up to the massacre of ethnic Koreans living in Japan. More than 6,000 are estimated to have been killed, but the ...

Items from the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake are on display at the memorial museum in Yokoamicho Park in Tokyo. Here, a warped clock is frozen minutes after the quake struck at 11:58 a.m. on Sept. 1 ...

People’s expressions can be seen in a film likely from what is now the Iriya district in Tokyo’s Taito Ward at 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Sept. 1, 1923, the day of the Great Kanto Earthquake.

He says Japan has long relied on gas shutoffs built into gas meters – in part because of the lessons learned from the Kanto earthquake and fire, which killed an estimated 100,000 people.

On this occasion of 100 years after the Great Kanto Earthquake, the author examined the roles and missions of the media in their efforts to prevent damage by complex disasters, ...