[citation needed] In some towns, even police stations into which Korean people had escaped were attacked by mobs, whereas in other neighborhoods, civilians took steps to protect them. It was the deadliest earthquake in Japanese history. [36] In the confusion after the quake, mass murder of Koreans by mobs occurred in urban Tokyo and Yokohama, fueled by rumors of rebellion and sabotage. The cause was a rupture of part of the convergent boundary where the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting beneath the Okhotsk Plate along the line of the Sagami Trough. Fire whirls can be common within the vicinity of a plume during a volcanic eruption. The death toll would be about 140,000, including 44,000 who had sought refuge near Tokyos Sumida River in the first few hours, only to be immolated by a freak pillar of fire known as a dragon twist. The temblor destroyed two of Japans largest cities and traumatized the nation; it also whipped up nationalist and racist passions. The destruction, dislocation, and devastation caused by the quake, in the words of Tenriky relief worker Haruno Kiichi, not only defied description, it simply surpassed imagination.2. Collapsed Remains of the Azuma Bridge on the Sumida River. Your email address will not be published. Stunned survivors of the earthquake, tsunami, and firestorm looked for an explanation or a scapegoat, and the target of their fury was the ethnic Koreans living in their midst. The 1923 earthquake led to record-high morbidity due to unsanitary conditions following the earthquake, and it prompted the establishment of antityphoid measures and the building of urban infrastructure. Quoted in Nose Yoritoshi, Fukk seishin nahen ni ariya, 12. The earthquake hit just a few minutes before noon on September 1, measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale. (Japan had occupied Korea in 1905, annexed it five years later, and ruled the territory with an iron grip.). More than this, however, many rural MPs contested Gots vision of a modern, metropolitan Japan revolving around the imperial capital; numerous parliamentarians argued that the countryside, not Tokyo, was the true heart of Japan, or as a number declared, the foundation of the nation. More than a few astute parliamentarians used the post-disaster reconstruction debates opportunistically to highlight what they saw as the plight of rural Japan. Though they may dispute its effects, historians agree that the destruction of two great population centers gave voice to those in Japan who believed that the embrace of Western decadence had invited divine retribution. A series of towering waves swept away thousands of people. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). A fire whirl can reach up to 2,000F (1,090C). Many homes were buried or swept away by landslides in the mountainous and hilly coastal areas in western Kanagawa Prefecture; about 800 people died. The temblor destroyed two of Japans largest cities and traumatized the nation; it also whipped up nationalist and racist passions. 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]. Detail, Scenes of the 1923 Earthquake; F1975.12. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Over the long term, resistance, resilience, and calls for a return to normalcy often define reconstruction. [32] There were 57 aftershocks. At two minutes to noon a magnitude approximate 7.9 earthquake toppled structures, crushed people, and unsettled everyone who survived. For the next three days, Yonemura sent a stream of reports that alerted the world to the unfolding tragedy. Within hours of the catastrophe, rumors spread that Korean immigrants were poisoning wells and using the breakdown of authority to plot the overthrow of the Japanese government. Your Privacy Rights The Great Kanto Earthquake obliterated all of that in a single afternoon. [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. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Theyre a reminder that Japan has faced brutally difficult rebuilding efforts, and succeeded in building back better. The initial jolt was followed a few minutes later by a 40-foot-high tsunami. 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. [12] This earthquake destroyed Tokyo, the port city of Yokohama, surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa, and Shizuoka. J. CHARLES SCHENCKING is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese History at the University of Melbourne. Even smaller scale reconstruction plans that ranged from 1.3 billion to 3 billion yen were met with labels of reckless, dangerous, or problematic by financial and political officialsincluding the Minister of Finance, Inoue Junnosuke.19 An adherent to the classical liberal economic view that times of depression or recession warranted a retrenchment of government expenditures, Inoue refused to raise new taxes for Tokyos reconstruction and, in 1924, only after considerable pressure, agreed to release public bonds to finance reconstruction.20 Moreover, Inoue required that all other ministries of state prune their proposed budgets for 1924 and 1925 to cover part of the anticipated costs for reconstructing Tokyo. Japanese commentators interpreted the disaster as an act of divine punishment to admonish the Japanese people for their self-centered, immoral, and extravagant lifestyles. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It lasted between 4 and 10 minutes. Then, as in Yokohama, fires spread, fueled by flimsy wooden houses and fanned by high winds. The single greatest loss of life was caused by a fire whirl that engulfed the Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho (formerly the Army Clothing Depot) in downtown Tokyo, where about 38,000 people were incinerated after taking shelter there after the earthquake. [18], During the 1871 Peshtigo fire, the community of Williamsonville, Wisconsin, was burned by a fire whirl; the area where Williamsonville once stood is now Tornado Memorial County Park. In the historical fantasy novel Teito Monogatari (Hiroshi Aramata) a supernatural explanation is given for the cause of the Great Kant earthquake, connecting it with the principles of feng shui. The initial jolt, lasting just over fourteen seconds, collapsed most of the brick and un-reinforced concrete buildings throughout the Kant region. A total of about140,000 people perished in the disaster. The innovative design used to construct the Imperial Hotel, and its structural fortitude, inspired the creation of the popular Lincoln Logs toy.[51]. University of Washington Library, Digital Collections: Japan. 1923 Great Kant earthquake View source The Great Kant earthquake (, Kant dai-jishin) 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. The remains of the famous Maruzen bookstore located in Nihombashi district of Tokyo after fire. The shock generated a tsunami that reached a height of 39.5 feet (12 metres) at Atami on Sagami Gulf, where it destroyed 155 houses and killed 60 people. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. The Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, 1923. hXn7.CA8v lPG2M},M. Rural MPs opposed to a radical makeover of Tokyo were joined by many counterparts who represented urban electorates in Japan. Otis Manchester Poole, a 43-year-old American manager of a trading firm, stepped out of his largely still-intact office near the Bund to face an indelible scene. Destructive 'Super Pigs' From Canada Threaten the Northern U.S. Did an Ancient Magnetic Field Reversal Cause Chaos for Life on Earth 42,000 Years Ago? Minutes later, another intense seismic wave battered eastern Japan. The earthquake happens just as the marriage between Akiko and her fianc Kiyosu Saionji is announced. Sufferers of the earthquake look terrible and we feel sorry for them for sure, [but we act] as if we are shocked to see the blood of the injured. Since Miuras 1923 reflection that disasters expose both strengths and weaknesses in individuals and society, many scholars and educators, social commentators, and journalists have likewise suggested that disasters are indeed revealers, an ideal lens with which to view society, or the closest thing a student of society ever approaches to a natural laboratory.3 Writing more than half a century ago, historian Marc Bloch, suggested that Just as the progress of a disease shows a doctor the secret life of a body, so too the progress of a great calamity yields valuable information about the nature of a society.4 More than this, however, disasters are also ideal vehicles by which educators can introduce students to a society, culture, nation, or geographic region. Just eight years later, the nation took its first steps toward World War II with the invasion and occupation ofManchuria. 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. Lying at the intersection of three tectonic platesThe Pacific Plate, the Eurasian Plate, and the Philippines Sea Plateroughly eleven percent of the worlds seismic energy is released annually under the Japanese archipelago. ALL TRAFFIC STOPPEDand dispatched it to an RCA receiving station in Hawaii. Abe Is, Shinsai ni ataeta kokuminteki jikaku [Self awakening of the nation as a result of the earthquake]. [52], The Honda Point Disaster on the West Coast of the United States, in which seven US Navy destroyers ran aground and 23 people died, has been attributed to navigational errors caused by unusual currents set up by the earthquake in Japan.[53]. [22], Numerous large fire whirls (some tornadic) that developed after lightning struck an oil storage facility near San Luis Obispo, California, on 7 April 1926, produced significant structural damage well away from the fire, killing two. e0$XS-3\q/|iBIPAl*kEc1:~t.-m-6Z.9R,z%.G4i`[UZZ{OyI H|+ #vYJL R Then again, I'm also here because of the pogroms illustrated elsewhere on this site. [34] The flame length and burning rate of a blue whirl are smaller than those of a fire whirl.[33]. In 1960, on the 37th anniversary of the quake, the government declared September 1 an annual "Disaster Prevention Day". Evacuees were transported by ship from Kant to as far as Kobe in Kansai. The total death toll from the disaster is estimated at about 142,800. Fissures in the road in the Yokohama Oebashi vicinity. This, they believed, could be secured through the adoption of proactive urban planning and the expansion of extensive social welfare facilities. Joelle Seligson is digital editor at the Freer|Sackler. The Akasaka district, one of Tokyos residential areas, lies in ruins after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 1, 1923. okyo and Yokohama, Japan, Earthquake September 1, 1923. All rights reserved. The wave of good feeling between the two countries would soon dissipate, however, in mutual accusations. A fire whirl or fire devil (sometimes referred to as a fire tornado) is a whirlwind induced by a fire and often (at least partially) composed of flame or ash. People taking refuge to Japans countryside climb and clinch to one of few trains leaving the capital in 1923. The phenomenon was first verified in the 2003 Canberra bushfires and has since been verified in the 2018 Carr Fire in California and 2020 Loyalton Fire in California and Nevada. Post disaster landscapes are, however, also sites of opportunityperceived or real for those wishing to reconstruct or reshape a society. This luxury tariff law affected numerous other goods after passage endorsement by parliament in July 1924. Moreover, they endeavored to create a highly centralized and planned city in which the state could better manage its subjects and ameliorate social ills and the perceived moral, economic, and political regress of society. The newly deceased will take their happiest memory with them into the afterlife. Of the 3,000 Koreans taken into custody at the Army Cavalry Regiment base in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, 10% were killed at the base, or after being released into nearby villages. The Great Kanto Earthquake, sometimes called the Great Tokyo Earthquake, rocked Japan on September 1, 1923. 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. 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. About 700 Chinese, mostly from Wenzhou, were killed. [citation needed] The Army distributed flyers denying the rumor and warning residents against attacking Koreans, but in many cases, vigilante activity only ceased as a result of Army operations against it. Nishimura Goun (18771938),a Kyoto painter known for his soft, lyrical renderings of birds, fish, animals, andflowers, turned to the earthquake as the subject for this handscroll, which he completed two years afterward. Over everything had settled a thick white dust, he remembered years later, and through the yellow fog of dust, still in the air, a copper-coloured sun shone upon this silent havoc in sickly reality. Fanned by high winds, fires from overturned cookstoves and ruptured gas mains spread. Messervey, letter dated March 5, 1924. Many hundreds of thousands of houses were either shaken down or burned in the ensuing fire touched off by the quake. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The 2004 Niigata and the 1995 Kobe catastrophes are only the most recent examples of Japans vulnerability to seismic risk. Over 570,000 homes were destroyed, leaving an estimated 1.9 million homeless. A map detailing where the firestorms erupted and the areas that they consumed can be found in Tokyoshi. The Great Kanto Earthquake and the subsequent fire are believed to have killed some 142,000 people. A view of the devastation in Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake and fire, seen from the top of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. [19][20][21], An extreme example of a fire whirl is the 1923 Great Kant earthquake in Japan, which ignited a large city-sized firestorm which in turn produced a gigantic fire whirl that killed 38,000 people in fifteen minutes in the Hifukusho-Ato region of Tokyo. On this day in 1923, a great fire sweeps through the streets and narrow alleyways of Tokyo. They will soon recover. Civil unrest after the disaster has been documented. Thanks to that terrible tragedy, I'm here. [31] The damage is estimated to have exceeded US$1 billion (or about $16 billion today). In essence, these critiques were based on concerns about the perceived state of urban modernity in Japan; a Japan that many elites felt had lost its Meiji-era values of sacrifice, loyalty, selflessness, frugality, and obedience. Moreover, the earthquake caused nearly 6.5 billion yen of damage, a remarkable figure roughly four times larger than Japans national budget for 1922. The Great Kanto Earthquake, sometimes called the Great Tokyo Earthquake, rocked Japan on September 1, 1923. Like the 1923 quake, this one unleashed secondary disasters: a tsunami that washed away dozens of villages; mudslides; fires; and damage to the Fukushima Daiichi reactors that emitted radiation into the atmosphere (and constituted the worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986). Gallery[ change | change source] 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. Of the 44,000 people who had gathered there, only 300 survived. 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. In the autumn of 1923, educator Miura Tsaku toured the remains of a thoroughly destroyed city: Tokyo. Amidst widespread panic, chaos, and death, rumors spread throughout the disaster stricken areas. The Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923 Hannah Gould. Earthquake preparation literature in modern Japan almost always directs citizens to carry a portable radio and use it to listen to reliable information, and not to be misled by rumors in the event of a large earthquake. In the film adaptation of Japan Sinks, Nihon Chinbotsu, the Sagami Trough ruptures in a massive earthquake called "The Second Great Kanto Earthquake". Welcome to the National Museum of Asian Art. Everyone must remember that many of us ran to flippancy; lacked steadiness; lapsed into luxury; and forgot diligence and frugality. Only 300 of the people gathered there survived. The Great Kanto Earthquake triggered another horrifying result. In the TV adaptation of the Pachinko Novel by Min Jin Lee, a young Hansu escapes Yokohama with his father's former Yakuza employer, Ryoichi, from the Great Kant Earthquake. In revealing, disasters give students and scholars wonderful insights into human nature, cultural and social constructions, and illuminate the many relationshipsbetween man, nature, state, and even the cosmosthat define our existence. Extensive firestorms and even a fire whirl added to the death toll. The quake struck at 11:58 a.m., so many people were cooking lunch. Article history. Reconstruction processes as well as disasters can change landscapes. The destruction of the US embassy caused Ambassador Cyrus Woods to relocate the embassy to the hotel. [18], This earthquake devastated Tokyo, the port city of Yokohama, and the surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa, and Shizuoka, and caused widespread damage throughout the Kant region. Japanese expressed resentment toward Western rescuers; demagogues in the United States charged that the Japanese had been ungrateful for the outpouring of help they received. It presented exactly the aspect of a gigantic Christmas pudding over which the spirits were blazing, devouring nothing. Sheldon Garon, Fashioning a Culture of Diligence and Thrift: Savings and Frugality Campaigns in Japan, 19001931, in Sharon Minichiello, ed., Susanna Hoffman, After Atlas Shrugs: Cultural Change or Persistence After A Disaster, in. Although both were devastated, the city of Yokohama was hit even worse than Tokyo. Ultimately, the disaster sparked both soul-searching and nationalism in Japan. In July 1924, Japans parliament placed sizeable tariffs on a wide range of items, including pearls (2,000 percent increase), furs (200 percent), tooth powder, toiletries, and perfumes (200 percent), items made from coral (250 percent), tortoise shell (200 percent), artificial spices and essences (500 percent), and embroidered fabrics (250 percent).27 Moreover, many social commentators sought to encourage all Japanese to reflect upon and integrate the experiences of the earthquake into their daily lives. A 60- by 60-mile segment of the Philippine oceanic plate ruptured and thrust itself against the Eurasian continental plate, releasing a massive burst of tectonic energy. 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. About 140,000 people fell victim to this earthquake and the fires caused by it. I saw a thirty-foot sampan [boat] that had been lifted neatly on top of the roof of a prostrated house. Every year on the same date, drills and other activities are held across . Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. The Maruzen bookstores was the largest bookstore and main provider of Western and European literature in Tokyo. The coals from cooking fires moved about on the wooden floors of houses and buildings, fires broke out and quickly spread. They sought to strengthen the legitimacy of their previously expressed concerns about, and displeasure with, what they saw in 1920s urban Japan, namely decadence, selfishness, extravagance, frivolity, individualism, and the pursuit of luxury. Violence ensued. One hundred and thirty separate fires began in Tokyo less than an hour after the quake, with many clustered in the densely populated eastern and northeastern wards of Asakusa, Nihonbashi, Kanda, Kybashi, Fukagawa, and Ginza. 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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 $12 million for victims. And the quake may have emboldened right-wing forces at the very moment that the country was poised between military expansion and an embrace of Western democracy, only 18 years before Japan would enter World War II. IAIz \0V1G/^~n ^F|OY,)G~o{s:8u]:4cN}Uxi!T|yLx0F7! Heaven (ten), he suggested, had illustrated its displeasure with society, and the people were to blame. Using the pyro- prefix, fire-induced clouds are called pyrocumulus and pyrocumulonimbus. [13] Extensive firestorms and even a fire whirl added to the death toll. In the long run, the response to the disaster was a strong sense that Japan had been given an unparalleled opportunity to rebuild the city and rebuild Japanese values. In the background is the gutted domed building Kokugikan, National Sumo Wrestling arena, in the Ryoguku district. An interpretation that the fire-tornado has been caused by passage of a . Type 1: Stable and centered over burning area. Moreover, twenty percent of the worlds earthquakes of 6.0 magnitude and over each year occur in Japan. The earthquake also exposed the darker side of humanity. The result is an odd union of harsh subject matter and his signature gentle style. An explanation is the decline of waste disposal, which became particularly serious in the northern and western districts when traditional methods of waste disposal collapsed due to urbanization. Lr endstream endobj 646 0 obj <>stream This article was most recently revised and updated by, 6 of the Worlds Deadliest Natural Disasters, https://www.britannica.com/event/Tokyo-Yokohama-earthquake-of-1923. A man tries to earn some money by offering haircuts in the remains of a building. The quake's magnitude is estimated at 7.9 to 8.2 on the Richter scale, and its epicenter was in the shallow waters of Sagami Bay, about 25 miles south of Tokyo. According to some estimates, the death toll was as high as 6,000. y)8$(I. There is evidence suggesting that the fire whirl in the Hifukusho-ato area, during the 1923 Great Kant earthquake, was of type 3. 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?]. Stay updated on the latest visitor information. 8-2earthquake-kanto.jpg 329 315; 73 KB. Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, the plot takes place in a way station for those who have just died. 645 0 obj <>stream If so, they reveal more than they change. 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. 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. Largely forgotten, even by most Japanese, the quake leveled the great port. People walk in the devastated area of Yuoguku in Tokyo, Japan, after the earthquake that struck on Sept. 1, 1923. 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. Devastating earthquakes rocked the Tokyo region many times prior to 1923. It was the deadliest earthquake in Japanese history. 1923Kanto earthquake epicenters.png 800 560; 254 KB. [16] Drills, as well as knowledge promotion events, are centered around that date as well as awards ceremonies for people of merit.[17]. Fire and tremors together claimed 90% of the homes in Yokohama and left 60% of Tokyo's people homeless. Tawara Magoichi called the crimes deplorable, suggesting that the disaster exposed a major defect in the national spirit of Japan.11. "The Changing Character of Disaster Victimhood: Evidence from Japan's 'Great Earthquakes'. She has taught at the high school and university levels in the U.S. and South Korea. 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. Disasters, he wrote, take away the falsehood and ostentation of human life and conspicuously expose the strengths and weaknesses of human society.1 The disaster in question was the Great Kant Earthquake, the anniversary of which todaySeptember 1all Japanese know as Natural Disaster Prevention Day. These archival images, drawn from the U.S. Geological Survey, AP, and Brown Universitys Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection, show the horrifying wreckage. The following 27 files are in this category, out of 27 total. 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