The story: In near-future Japan, two students at a Tokyo high school prank their ... by the thousands in the wake of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, and the darkening national mood is rekindling ...

Wright’s plan to protect the hotel from tremor damage proved successful when the building was one of the few survivors of the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, which devastated the Japanese ...

After the Great Kanto ... in Japan. Earthquake drills start from a young age, evacuation routes are clearly marked, and parks and schoolyards double as gathering points. The capital Tokyo alone ...

The Great Kanto Earthquake that struck Japan in 1923 laid bare the need for a nationwide information system to keep citizens safe. Two years later, stations in three cities—Tokyo, Osaka and ...

That is the mission of Catholic youth.” When the Great Kanto Earthquake struck on Sept. 1 of that year and destroyed much of Tokyo, printing became impossible and so the young men moved to Osaka, ...

that unforgettable day of September 1, 1923, at 11:58, when the Great Kanto Earthquake and tidal wave struck Tokyo, causing the death of almost 100,000 people, one of the greatest disasters in ...

The year 1923 stands out as a turbulent moment in modern Japanese history because of the catastrophic Great Kanto Earthquake that brought Tokyo and surrounding regions to their knees. Yet even as tens ...

including the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, which claimed over 140,000 lives. Thanks to strict building codes and disaster preparedness, Tokyo has managed to reduce the deadly toll of its frequent ...

It’s a place where the bright lights and high end department stores of Tokyo’s Shinjuku district ... the Russo-Japanese War and the Great Kanto earthquake resulted in most of the two ...

As my politics grew, so did my interest in Japanese history, and I became obsessed with this one incident that took place on September 1, 1923: the Great Kanto earthquake ... So, when the earthquake ...