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.’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...

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 ...

Japan on Tuesday marks the 14th anniversary since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the nation in 2011, triggering a ...

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 ...

One of a series of lithographs entitled Teito daishinsai gahō (Pictorial of the Imperial Capital Great Earthquake Disaster) published Oct 20, 1923 by Urashimadō gakyoku, Tokyo. This print ...