This paper aims to explore how Tokyo city utilized sport in the recovery process from the catastrophe by analyzing historical documents. Japan earthquake and tsunami, severe natural disaster that occurred in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, and killed at least 20,000 people. De aardbeving duurde volgens verschillende bronnen zo'n 4 tot 10 minuten, en had een kracht van 8,3 op de schaal van Richter.Het hypocentrum lag diep onder het eiland Izu Ōshima in de Sagamibaai. The Kanto earthquake of 1 September 1923 in Japan is one of the most destructive earthquakes in the world, and over 100,000 people were sacrificed in the disaster. The Great Kantō earthquake (関東大震災, Kantō daishinsai) struck the Kantō Plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 11:58:44 a.m.… National reconstruction in the wake of the Great Kanto Earthquake, Schencking demonstrates, proved to be illusive. His research not only sheds light on Japan's experience with and interpretation of the earthquake but challenges widespread assumptions that disasters unite stricken societies, creating a "blank slate" for radical transformation. Largely forgotten, even by most Japanese, the quake leveled the great port city of Yokohama — home to a population of 5,000 expatriates — and burned down more than sixty percent of Tokyo. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 striking Tokyo city was one of the largest scale disasters in the history of Japan. This book is the first study to explore how people experienced, interpreted, and attempted to use the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 to not only rebuild Tokyo to reflect a new urban modernity, but also to reconstruct society.
The date was Sept. 1, 1923, and the event was the Great Kanto Earthquake, the worst calamity in Japan’s history. The source of the 1923 Kanto earthquake is a megathrust between Philippine Sea plate and Honshu plate.
The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan.New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. This article examines stories of ideal subjects published by the Ministry of Education within three months of Japan's most devastating natural disaster, the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. De Kanto-aardbeving (関東大震災, , Kantō daishinsai) of grote Kanto-aardbeving is een aardbeving die in de ochtend van 1 september 1923 de regio Kanto in Japan trof. The event began with a powerful earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan’s main island, which initiated a series of large tsunami waves that …