Nothing looks dopier than Kishida (or any other prime minister) in a Romper Room Space Helmet. The government designates Sept. 1 as Disaster Prevention Day, with drills held across the country That ...

The disaster, known as the Great Kanto Earthquake, triggered fires that quickly ravaged Tokyo and Yokohama, leaving more than 105,000 dead or missing. Although Tokyo and its surroundings were ...

A hundred years ago this month, Tokyo was flattened. The Great Kanto Earthquake, a magnitude 7.9 event, demolished the nascent Japanese capital, killing more than 100,000 people — some 3% of the ...

and militaristic mobs following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan. [Photo by Jiang Xueqing/chinadaily.com.cn] Naoyuki Maniwa, a member of the Koto City Assembly, criticized Japanese ...

TOKYO: This week Japan marks 100 years since the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed 105,000 people. Less well known is the subsequent massacre of thousands of ethnic Koreans that haunts the ...