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

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 ...

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 ...

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.’ ...

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

The Great East Japan Earthquake, followed by the tsunami and ... waves engulfed a broad area of the Pacific coast of Tohoku to Kanto regions. The death toll from the series of earthquake and ...

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 ...