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 ...

“Kanto Taishin Taika Jikkyo” (Actual situation of the Great Kanto Earthquake and fire), which records the destruction in Tokyo and Yokohama, is available on the site. “This film, a ...

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 ...

100 years have passed since the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 ... obscuring the reality of how citizens of Tokyo faced this overwhelming disaster. To understand these details, we remastered ...

A circa 1925 woodcut by Unpo Takashima depicts Tokyo's Ueno district ablaze ... The date was September 1, 1923, and the event was the Great Kanto Earthquake, at the time considered the worst ...

A view of destruction in Tokyo, seen from the ... region that survived the 1923 earthquake. (USGS/George A. Lang Collection) See more archival images of the Kanto Earthquake.

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 ...

Following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 ... s name was changed to include the 100,000 people who died in Tokyo’s air raids. The Reconstruction Museum in a nearby building in the park ...

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 has dealt with earthquakes for millennia, but it was the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, which struck right at the ...