Aug. 22, 2023 Kishida was to participate in a joint earthquake drill hosted by Sagamihara and joined by eight cities, including Tokyo. The Great Kanto Quake came 13 years after Japan’s colonial ...

As many as 142,000 people died in the Great Kanto Earthquake and the ensuing fires that tore through Tokyo and YokohamaImage: Evans/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Many of the deaths were ...

There are images from the 1923 earthquake ... Tokyo and you want to check out Yokoamicho Park, there’s sure to be some memorial events taking place on the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto ...

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 ...

For residents of Paradise, California, the historic disaster in the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui stirs up painful memories of their own devastation: In 2018, 85 people were killed and the ...

as his country marked the centennial of the real-life 1923 Great Kanto Quake that killed more than 100,000 people. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the Sagamihara area southwest of Tokyo ...