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Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923

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View Resource The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923

Around midday on September 1, 1923, Japan experienced its most devastating earthquake. It is estimated that over 110,000 persons died around the Tokyo metropolitan area, and 90 percent of the buildings in Yokohama were damaged or destroyed. As a witness to this devastation, William Dana Reynolds and his family arrived in Yokohama Bay eight days after the earthquake occurred. Reynolds elected to...

https://library.brown.edu/cds/kanto/