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    The Great Kantō earthquake (関東大地震, Kantō dai-jishin, Kantō ō-jishin) also known in Japanese as Kantō daishinsai (関東大震災) struck the Kantō Plain on the main...
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    Kantō Massacre (關東大虐殺, Korean: 간토 대학살) was a mass murder in the Kantō region of Japan committed in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake....
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    deadliest earthquake in the 20th century after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, which claimed more than 105,000 lives. Most of the largest earthquakes in Japan...
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    anticipated a very large quake would strike in the same place as the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake—in the Sagami Trough, southwest of Tokyo. The Japanese government...
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    the Kanto region in the past. 1293 Kamakura earthquake 1703 Genroku earthquake 1855 Edo earthquake 1894 Tokyo earthquake 1923 Great Kantō earthquake Sagami...
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    a replacement for an older market that was destroyed in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. It was closed on 6 October 2018, with wholesale operations moving...
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    the Meireki fire was nearly comparable to that suffered in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and the 1945 bombing of Tokyo in World War II. Both these 20th-century...
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    Japanese Earthquakes. Following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, the Imperial Earthquake Investigation Committee was superseded by the Earthquake Research...
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  • affect Japan by death toll was the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, which killed ~105,000 and a further ~6,000 due to the Kantō Massacre in its immediate aftermath...
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    7289/V5TD9V7K. "Today in Earthquake History". United States Geological Survey. Hammer, Joshua. (2006). Yokohama Burning: the Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that...
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    Ryōunkaku (category 1923 Great Kantō earthquake)
    Taitō, Tokyo) from 1890 until its demolition following the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. The Asakusa Jūnikai (浅草十二階, lit. Asakusa Twelve-stories), as...
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    deadly earthquakes in the past century include: 1923 Great Kantō earthquake (Japan) M 7.9, 142,800 deaths, mostly due to fire. 1948 Ashgabat earthquake (Turkmenistan)...
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    for participating in rescue operations in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. The Pacific fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway tended to...
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    health issues, navigating Japan through significant treaties, the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, and an assassination attempt. In January 1924, he married Princess...
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  • from 1923 in existence, which could be the result of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. The Great Kantō earthquake which occurred on September 1, 1923 dealt...
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    after earthquake damage in 1640, a fire in 1841, and again after the 1855 Edo earthquake. Heavily damaged during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, when...
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    Disaster Prevention Day (category 1923 Great Kantō earthquake)
    the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and is a day on which disaster preparations are taken nationwide, especially in the Kantō region. On September 1, 1923, Tokyo...
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    1920s (section 1923)
    include the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake (258,707~273,407 deaths), 1922 Shantou typhoon (50,000–100,000 deaths), 1923 Great Kantō earthquake (105,385–142,800 deaths)...
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    suggesting that the fire whirl in the Hifukusho-ato area, during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, was of type 3. Other mechanism and fire whirl dynamics may exist...
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  • control of Korea until the end of World War II in 1945. During the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, widespread damage occurred in a region with a significant Korean...
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    historical novel The Emperor and the Spy by Stan S. Katz. During the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, Baron Shibusawa is shown actively engaged in assisting many...
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    RMS Empress of Australia (1919) (category 1923 Great Kantō earthquake)
    the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, devastating Tokyo and Yokohama and the entire Kantō region of central Honshū. This was one of the worst earthquake disasters...
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    earthquake of 20 September 1498, during the Muromachi period. Since then, the Great Buddha has stood in the open air. The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake...
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    take place. Large earthquakes that frequently occur in Japan (such as the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake, and the 2011 Tōhoku...
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    Incident, the extrajudicial execution of anarchists after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. He later became head of the Manchukuo Film Association. Amakasu...
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    Amagi-class battlecruiser (category 1923 Great Kantō earthquake)
    guns were placed in reserve and scrapped in 1943. The September 1923 Great Kantō earthquake in Tokyo caused significant stress damage to the hull of Amagi...
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    Megathrust earthquakes are large seismic events that take place along convergent plate boundaries, particularly at subduction zones. Examples of subduction...
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    that caused the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. A total of about 50,000 houses and over 50 temples were either destroyed by the earthquake shaking or subsequent...
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    Kansai region. Following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, many beef restaurants in Tokyo were closed and many people in Kantō temporarily moved to the Osaka...
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    Honda Point disaster (category 1923 Great Kantō earthquake)
    any first hand knowledge." On September 1, 1923, eight days before the disaster, the Great Kantō earthquake had occurred in Japan. Unusually large swells...
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