The date was September 1, 1923, and the event was the Great Kanto Earthquake, at the time considered ... The three-story Grand Hotel, an elegant Victorian villa on the seafront that had played ...

This innovation allowed the hotel to survive the devastating earthquake of 1923. I have received another cable from Tokyo reading— “IMPERIAL stands ... was already too great for safety or ...

Lang Collection) See more archival images of the Kanto Earthquake ... the great buildings of Tokyo—the Foreign Office, Russian Embassy, Navy and War Department buildings, the Imperial Hotel.

1, 1923, Tokyo and Yokohama were engulfed by horrific fires spawned by the Great Kanto Earthquake ... The project to rebuild the ravaged imperial capital after the 1923 seismic devastation ...

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 ...

100 years have passed since the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Although filmed records of its aftermath exist, the footage held flaws making it difficult to identify locations or times ...

In 1923, Tokyo lay in ruins after the devastation of the Great Kanto Earthquake. Just seven years later, it was a city reborn: from the iconic Ginza shopping center to the world famous Kabuki-za ...

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 ...

Following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, some 40,000 people who had fled their homes perished on this site when sparks set clothing and bedding alight. The fire raged for nearly a day and a ...

YOKOHAMA--Historic negatives that capture the destruction to this port city close to Tokyo caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake are ... As the photos show the Imperial Japanese Navy’s ...