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The 6.8-magnitude quake that struck Kobe in 1995 caused the loss of 6,400 lives. More disruptive still was the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the Kanto plain on September 1st 1923.
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 rule of the ...
1923: Process the Great Kantō Earthquake death. Lead all the miserable souls, battle quake-storms, and make life-or-death choices in collapsing Kanto’s Hell. A historical strategy game inspired by ...
On Friday, Japan marked the centennial of the 1923 Great Kanto Quake that killed more than 100,000. Words on a lantern read "Memorial," and on a banner read "Great earthquake 100 years." Credit: AP ...
There were no landmarks, no familiar buildings from which one might determine locality." In 1924, an American journalist in Japan offered a harrowing first-hand account of 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.
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 ...
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 ...
Japan on Friday marked the centenary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated the capital and surrounding areas, killing an estimated 105,000 people in the deadliest natural disaster in the ...
The Great Kanto Earthquake map NHK has hundreds of photos of the destruction and suffering caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake. They were sent in by viewers over the years.
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 ...
A century after the Great Kanto Earthquake, previously unknown details have been extracted from newly 8K remastered and colorized footage, vividly demonstrating how Tokyo citizens faced the disaster.