The date was September 1, 1923, and the event was the Great Kanto Earthquake, at the time considered the worst natural disaster ever to strike quake-prone Japan. The initial jolt was followed a ...

And while as many as 142,000 people died in the Great Kanto Earthquake and the fires that tore through Tokyo and Yokohama, experts have warned that the Japanese public is largely unprepared for ...

The neighborhood, known for its sumo stables and Kokugikan Arena, was also home to a military clothing depot and was a vacant lot of around 80,000 square meters when the Great Kanto Earthquake ...

The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 was literally a picture of hell. Fires killed hundreds of thousands of people and sparked a witch hunt of Korean residents wrongfully blamed for the infernos.

The Great Kanto Earthquake that hit eastern Japan in 1923 caused approximately 105,000 causalities in Tokyo and surrounding areas. It is reported that about 90 percent of the victims were killed ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

1 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake, which devastated the capital and surrounding areas. The disaster left more than 105,000 people dead or missing. Many died in the ...

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.

technology has progressed dramatically since the Great Kanto earthquake flattened large parts of Tokyo and Yokohama just over 100 years ago. But innovations mostly center on a simple, long ...

The film is set on September 1th, 1923 , when a huge earthquake hits Tokyo . The quake caused buildings to collapse, and the city was reduced to ashes by fire. The Great Kanto Earthquake killed ...