On the morning of September 1, 1923, an earthquake with a magnitude believed to be around 7.9 rattled the Kanto region. The timing, around midday, was calamitous. Families were cooking over open ...

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

1 opened a website, Films of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, with the National Institute ... and fire), which records the destruction in Tokyo and Yokohama, is available on the site.

100 years have passed since the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Although filmed records ... obscuring the reality of how citizens of Tokyo faced this overwhelming disaster. To understand these ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- A museum that looks like a Western ... temple design has been recounting the history following the Great Kanto Earthquake which struck the Japanese capital region in 1923.

Caption 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 ...