Kinney, a Tokyo-based editor for Trans-Pacific magazine ... about democratic forces emerging in society, and “the 1923 earthquake does sort of begin to reverse some of the liberal tendencies ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...