W hen you look up Ford Motor Company of Japan Limited, you find a lot of past-tense phrasing. This company was Ford's ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Tokyo was left in ruins following the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. Hulton Deutsch/Corbis/Getty Images. The piecemeal evolution of building regulations continued through the 20th century.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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, ...

Tokyo was left in ruins following the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. Hulton Deutsch/Corbis/Getty Images. The piecemeal evolution of building regulations continued through the 20th century.