Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923, also called Great Kanto earthquake, earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area near noon on September 1, 1923. 1923 earthquake and tsunami centered in southeast Honshu, Japan. Then came fires, roaring through the wooden houses of Yokohama and Tokyo, the capital, burning everythingand everyonein their path. For a full list of goods that fell under this new law, see Takenobu Yoshitar, ed.. Takashima Heizabur, Hensai o kikai ni [The disaster as opportunity]. Ethnic Koreans were massacred after the earthquake. In the 2013 animated film by director Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises, the protagonist Jiro Horikoshi is traveling to Tokyo by train to study engineering. Required fields are marked *. It narrowly survived and assisted in rescuing 2000 survivors. qT }17GGiHKzB>EW"B =-UJ6)wt^!0&tlMLl;b7"^k+D}; gYCSK The state, he suggested, must use the earthquake as a turning point to reorient society away from the luxurious and extravagant habits, loose morals, and flippancy. Stay updated on the latest visitor information. In one scene in the book, Japan Sinks (by Sakyo Komatsu), due to the fast-moving subduction of the Pacific and Eurasian plates, the Sagami Trough ruptures in a magnitude-8.5 earthquake, killing several million people in Tokyo and other areas, causing major tsunamis, and creating major firestorms. (Photo credit: U.S. Geological Survey / AP / Brown University). Three hundred people died in Kamakura, the ancient capital, when a 20-foot-high wave washed over the town. Shortly before noon on September 1, 1923, along a fault extending roughly northwest by Southeast in Sagami Bay, parts of these plates slipped past each other. The statue of Takeo Hirose. [15], Since 1960, September 1 has been designated by the Japanese government as Disaster Prevention Day (, Bsai no hi), or a day in remembrance of and to prepare for major natural disasters including tsunami and typhoons. The 9.0 earthquake that struck the northeast coast of Honshu this past March is not likely to have such an impact on Japans history. Enclosed find a few snaps taken on the top of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo which is the only hotel in the earthquake district that survived. J.H. they killed so many people because when people try to run away the hot are stuck their feet to the road and they couldn't run away. Meanwhile, a wall of water surged from the fault zone toward the coast of Honshu. J. CHARLES SCHENCKING is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese History at the University of Melbourne. 8-2earthquake-kanto.jpg 329 315; 73 KB. [35] Anti-Korean sentiment was heightened by fear of the Korean independence movement. Why did i.. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. My own view is that by reducing the expatriate European community in Yokohama and putting an end to a period of optimism symbolized by that city, the Kanto earthquake accelerated Japans drift toward militarism and war. Some discreet memorials are located in Yokoamicho Park in Sumida Ward, at the site of the open space in which an estimated 38,000 people were killed by a single fire whirl. Alternate titles: Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. This luxury tariff law affected numerous other goods after passage endorsement by parliament in July 1924. Over the long term, resistance, resilience, and calls for a return to normalcy often define reconstruction. The following 27 files are in this category, out of 27 total. *Tdyjd+e&).V[&Ytk8TC1Su9Bee*FdMKm fsLa-R5"kYL5%Y~1uvR&`Z[Rw?$/`[=-{Uzb45RkXb-oM[-_iO)9M? Canberra 2003 groundtrack, lee side spread, weather. More than 100,000 people died when the Great Kant Earthquake struck the Tokyo metropolitan area on September 1, 1923. The Great Kant earthquake (, Kant dai-jishin; Kant -jishin) [11] [12] struck the Kant Plain on the main Japanese island of Honsh at 11:58:44 JST (02:58:44 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Quoted in Nose Yoritoshi, Fukk seishin nahen ni ariya, 12. It presented exactly the aspect of a gigantic Christmas pudding over which the spirits were blazing, devouring nothing. Fortunately, this area did not suffer from fire. On September 2, 1923, he assumed the position of Home Minister and soon thereafter became President of the Reconstruction Institute. In the autumn of 1923, educator Miura Tsaku toured the remains of a thoroughly destroyed city: Tokyo. "'Extreme confusion and disorder'? Other individuals were even more explicit. The earthquake damaged the ship's hull beyond repair, leading it to be scrapped, and the unfinished fast battleship Kaga was converted into an aircraft carrier in its place. Looking back on 1924]. The Maruzen bookstores was the largest bookstore and main provider of Western and European literature in Tokyo. The date was September 1, 1923, and the event was the Great Kanto Earthquake, at the time considered the worst natural disaster ever to strike quake-prone Japan. In the wood-built cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, upended cooking fires and broken gas mains set off firestorms that raced through homes and offices. A false rumor was spread that Koreans were taking advantage of the disaster, committing arson and robbery, and were in possession of bombs. [16] Drills, as well as knowledge promotion events, are centered around that date as well as awards ceremonies for people of merit.[17]. %PDF-1.6 % Many hundreds of thousands of houses were either shaken down or burned in the ensuing fire touched off by the quake. Transforming perception into reality required two key ingredients, namely political authority and money. Ministers of state who guarded their administrative budgets and responsibilities with fierce determination were thus pitted against a wide-ranging reconstruction program for fear that this would reduce the future budgetary health of the bureaucracies under their jurisdiction. An overwhelming disaster has overtaken the people of the friendly nation of Japan, he declared on September 3. Before the Great Kanto Earthquake struck, Japan was full of optimism. The newly deceased will take their happiest memory with them into the afterlife. hXn7.CA8v lPG2M},M. Szczepanski, Kallie. Your Privacy Rights Vigilante groups set up roadblocks in cities, and tested civilians with a shibboleth for supposedly Korean-accented Japanese: deporting, beating, or killing those who failed. Both the cities of Yokohama and Tokyo were devastated, but the consequences of the earthquake would turn out to be just as destructive, if not more so. Yonemuras bulletins helped to galvanize an international relief effort, led by the United States, that saved thousands from near-certain death or prolonged misery. By the way, I didn't mean to say hurricane I meant to say earthquake It was calculated to have horizontal winds of 160mph (260km/h) and vertical air speed of 93mph (150km/h), causing the flashover of 300 acres (120ha) in 0.04 seconds. [31] The damage is estimated to have exceeded US$1 billion (or about $16 billion today). The 7.9 magnitude earthquake, centered just over forty miles south-southwest of Japan's capital, released energy equivalent to the detonation of nearly 400 Hiroshima-size atomic bombs. Only 300 of the people gathered there survived. (2020, August 28). Or, as philosopher and social critic Fukasaku Yasubumi declared at the time: God cracked down a great hammer on the Japanese nation. For the city was gone., The tragedy prompted countless acts of heroism. One individual who exemplified the spirit of post-disaster opportunism was Got Shinpei, a former mayor of Tokyo who had gained urban planning and administrative experience in Japans colonies of Taiwan and along the South Manchurian Railway. [44] Socialists such as Hirasawa Keishichi[ja] (), anarchists such as Sakae sugi and Noe It, and the Chinese communal leader, Kiten[ja] (), were abducted and killed by local police and Imperial Army, who claimed the radicals intended to use the crisis as an opportunity to overthrow the Japanese government. And the quake may have emboldened right-wing forces at the very moment that the country was poised between military expansion and an embrace of Western democracy, only 18 years before Japan would enter World War II. Waki Yamato's manga Haikara-san ga Tru actually reaches its climax after the Great Kant earthquakewhich happens right before the wedding of the female lead, Benio Hanamura, and her second love Tousei. Beginning in 1960, every September 1st is designated as Disaster Prevention Day to commemorate the earthquake and remind people of the importance of preparedness, as August and September are the peak of the typhoon season. "{/A TZ @M-[c !t GR Fire whirls associated with the bombing of Hamburg, particularly those of 2728 July 1943, were studied. Joshua Hammer is a contributing writer to Smithsonian magazine and the author of several books, including The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts and The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird. The initial jolt, lasting just over fourteen seconds, collapsed most of the brick and un-reinforced concrete buildings throughout the Kant region. By this fire-tornado, about 40 thousand people have been burned to death in a moment. The cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, and surrounding towns and villages, have been largely if not completely destroyed by earthquake, fire and flood, with a resultant appalling loss of life and destitution and distress, requiring measures of urgent relief. The American Red Cross, of which Coolidge was the titular head, initiated a national relief drive, raising $12 million for victims. At the heart of these plans were a series of wide roads and public transportation networks, which many planners believed would serve as the arteries of the capital. U.S. naval vessels set sail from China on the evening of September 2, and within a week, dozens of warships packed with relief suppliesrice, canned roast beef, reed mats, gasolinefilled Yokohama Harbor. A tsunami with waves up to 10m (33ft) high struck the coast of Sagami Bay, Bs Peninsula, Izu Islands, and the east coast of Izu Peninsula within minutes. "The Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, 1923." IAIz \0V1G/^~n ^F|OY,)G~o{s:8u]:4cN}Uxi!T|yLx0F7! A fire whirl consists of a burning core and a rotating pocket of air. Aug 21, 2013. Blue whirls are partially premixed flames that reside elevated in the recirculation region of the vortex-breakdown bubble. The quake struck at 11:58 am, so many people were cooking lunch. In Makiko Hirata's josei manga and anime Kasei Yakyoku the story finishes some time after the earthquake, as a corollary to the main love triangle between the noblewoman Akiko Hashou, her lover Taka Itou, and Akiko's personal maid Sara Uchida. History of Japanese Organized Crime, the Yakuza, Behind the Accounts of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, J.D., University of Washington School of Law, B.A., History, Western Washington University. Starting in Yokohama, rumors circulated suggesting that bands of lawless Koreans had set fires, looted shelters, shops, and vacant homes, and poisoned wells throughout the Kant region. Parliamentarians from rural districts who comprised the majority of Japans legislative representatives feared that a radical reconstruction of Tokyo would markedly reduce the amount of funds available for previously agreed upon and all future rural public works and infrastructure projects. On the way, the 1923 earthquake strikes, damaging the train and causing a huge fire in the city. The Philippine plate is estimated to have moved as much as three and a half meters horizontally as well as vertically: parts of the Miura peninsula were thrust vertically upwards by as . Messervey, from a letter dated March 5, 1924. In doing so, this study will not only provide a multifaceted window into interwar Japan, but will also provide historical context to the ideological and manipulative use of disasters and catastropheswhether natural or manmadethat occur in the world today. Type 1: Stable and centered over burning area. Minutes later, another intense seismic wave battered eastern Japan. The Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, 1923. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Lr endstream endobj 646 0 obj <>stream Often relayed by refugees, some stories suggested that Mt. Fuji had erupted or was about to, while others claimed that a large tsunami had washed away Yokohama. The initial jolt, lasting just over fourteen seconds, collapsed most of the brick and un-reinforced concrete buildings throughout the Kant region. University of Washington Library, Digital Collections: Japan. Some, however, can be more than 1km (0.6mi) tall, contain wind speeds over 200km/h (120mph), and persist for more than 20 minutes.[5]. The wooden floor of the bridge burned down during the fires caused by the earthquake, leaving only the metal supports. People walk in the devastated area of Yuoguku in Tokyo, Japan, after the earthquake that struck on Sept. 1, 1923. It was the deadliest earthquake in Japanese history. In the weeks after the calamity, direct relief and recovery initiatives gave way to two other important phenomena that invariably accompany major natural disasters: interpretation and opportunism. In 2006, he received a National Award for Australian University Teaching from the Carrick Institute. Using the pyro- prefix, fire-induced clouds are called pyrocumulus and pyrocumulonimbus. Following the devastation of the earthquake, some in the government considered the possibility of moving the capital elsewhere. The Kant Massacre began on the day of the earthquake. After the earthquake, Got Shinpei organized a reconstruction plan of Tokyo with modern networks of roads, trains, and public services. About 700 Chinese, mostly from Wenzhou, were killed. If one were to pour money to earthquake sufferers, why not also direct some to impoverished rural communities as well, asked MP Miwa Ichitar. She has taught at the high school and university levels in the U.S. and South Korea. The flames closed in from all directions, and then, at 4 p.m., a 300-foot-tall fire tornado blazed across the area. It was the deadliest earthquake in Japanese history. Rather than unite the political establishment, the earthquake and reconstruction process widened many of the underlying political and ideological fissures that scarred the landscape of interwar Japan. Fire and tremors together claimed 90% of the homes in Yokohama and left 60% of Tokyo's people homeless. Civil unrest after the disaster has been documented. Order returned to Tokyo after 50,000 Imperial Japanese Army troops fanned out across the city to implement stabilization, recovery, and relief operations. This, they believed, could be secured through the adoption of proactive urban planning and the expansion of extensive social welfare facilities. Writing in journals, both popular and academic, as well as in books and in newspapers, Fukasaku freely admitted that the earthquake presented a unique opportunity by which people could interpret what was natures inevitability as moral inevitability and use it for social, political, and ideological ends.14 When we look back upon the state of the popular mind of our society before the earthquake, he wrote, we can understand that interpreting the disaster as a deliberate divine plan (kami no keikaku ) was not absurd at all. He concluded:15. Inoue Junnosukes reflections in Tokyo Shisei Chsakai ed. Nevertheless, there are parallels. But do they fundamentally change underlying patterns of behavior or overturn society as much as the physical destruction they often cause? The earthquake also exposed the darker side of humanity. ALL TRAFFIC STOPPEDand dispatched it to an RCA receiving station in Hawaii. e0$XS-3\q/|iBIPAl*kEc1:~t.-m-6Z.9R,z%.G4i`[UZZ{OyI H|+ #vYJL R The Great Kanto Earthquake turned 93 on 1st September 2016. Most horrifying of the immediate results was the fate of 38,000 to 44,000 working-class Tokyo residents who fled to the open ground of the Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho, once called the Army Clothing Depot. Down at the docks of Yokohama, Japans biggest port and its gateway to the West, hundreds of well-wishers were seeing off the Empress of Australia, a 615-foot luxury steamship bound for Vancouver. A massive magnitude-9.0 temblor struck off the coast of Sendai on March 11, 2011, itself producing some damage but also generating a series of devastating tsunamis along the coast of northeastern Japan. A view of the devastation in Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake and fire, seen from the top of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. [13] A man tries to earn some money by offering haircuts in the remains of a building. Tenriky Priest Okutani Fumitomo suggested that Tokyo, as the center of many western-inspired, foreign ideologies and behaviors, was singled out by Gods (kamisama ) fury. While dreams of constructing a modern, new metropolis may have been shattered by the contentious political and financial disputes, numerous government officials and social commentators thereafter directed their attention toward reconstructing Japans subjects and citizens. The Fires - Kanto Earthquake of 1923 The Fires Some say timing is everything, the Great Kanto Earthquake struck around noon; lunchtime. While such concerns were not entirely new, the earthquake significantly increased the cacophony of alarmist voices in Japan, amplified their resonance in elite circles, and gave perceived cosmological legitimacy to previously voiced concerns about the moral degradation of Japanese society. Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923, also called Great Kanto earthquake, earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area near noon on September 1, 1923. The earthquake that Tokyo experienced at two minutes to noon on September 1, 1923, however, resulted in unprecedented disaster-related death and destruction for Japan. The Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923 Hannah Gould. Then there was Taki Yonemura, chief engineer of the government wireless station in Iwaki, a small town 152 miles northeast of Tokyo. Many People sit on street car railway in front of their crushed houses in Japan 1923 after an earthquake. Got and the constellation of urban planners, social welfare advocates, and engineers he surrounded himself with sought to reconstruct Tokyo as the city of the future. Traditional figures offered words of solace: Crown Prince Hirohito 88 years ago; his son, Emperor Akihito, in 2011. Army and police personnel colluded in the vigilante killings in some areas. From the waterfront promenade, known as the Bund, to the Bluff, the hillside neighborhood favored by foreign residents, Yokohama was where East met West, and liberal ideasincluding democracy, collective bargaining and womens rightstransfixed those who engaged them. ", Clancey, Gregory. [23], Fire whirls were produced in the conflagrations and firestorms triggered by firebombings of European and Japanese cities during World War II and by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Founded as Japans first Foreign Settlement in 1859, five years after U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry forced the shogun to open Japan to the West, Yokohama had grown into a cosmopolitan city of half a million. In the background is the gutted domed building Kokugikan, National Sumo Wrestling arena, in the Ryoguku district. Great Kanto Earthquake 1923 Japan - YouTube The Great Kant earthquake (, Kant dai-jishin; Kant -jishin) struck the Kant Plain on the main Japanese island of Honsh at 11:58:44. 'Yokohama Burning': Destruction, massacre and tornadoes of fire Yokohama, risen from the ashes: 140,000 people are thought to have died in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, which. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. The earthquake disaster was also a human calamity, resulting in the deaths of more than 110,000 individuals and leaving nearly 1.5 million homeless. Omissions? The earthquakes epicenter was in the waters of Sagami Bay, triggering a tsunamithat reached heights of forty feet. Cookie Settings, Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts, The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird, Dried Lake Reveals New Statue on Easter Island. Koizumi Tomi, Hifukush seki snan no ki [Meeting with Disaster at the Site of the Clothing Depot], in Kaizsha ed.. Michael Allen, The Price of Identity: The 1923 Earthquake and its Aftermath, Korean Studies, 20 (1996), 6493; Michael Weiner, For example, see: Janet Borland, Stories of Ideal Subjects from the Great Kant Earthquake,, Okutani Fumitomo, Kant no daisaiga wa ikanaru shini ka [In what ways was the great Kant disaster Gods will?]. As Vice President of the Reconstruction Institute, Miyao Shunji, later lamented, plans for a great, new, awe-inspiring Tokyo were ignored or bypassed out of financial necessity. The importance of obtaining and providing accurate information following natural disasters has been emphasized in Japan ever since. Many whirlwinds were produced by the four-day-long firestorm coincident with conditions that produced severe thunderstorms, in which the larger fire whirls carried debris 5km (3.1mi) away. 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