Fueled by high winds and increased temperatures, leaking gas mains, and an abundance of combustible material, five large whirlwind firestorms erupted and consumed large parts of Asakusa, Higashi-Ueno, and Honjo, the latter burning and suffocating nearly 40,000 citizens who had taken refuge at the infamous Honjo Clothing Depot.7 Survivors from the Honjo Clothing Depot virtually all referred to this locale as Hell, a site inhabited not by humans, but a place teaming with Hungry Ghosts, red inflamed bodies, black swollen bodies, bodies partially buried, endless rows of charred bodies, and bodies piled higher than one could imagine.8 Tawara Magoichi, future Minister of Commerce and Industry (19291931) confessed that what he saw with his own eyes was more devastating than what I had heard in the rumors. I enclose also a photo of the ruins of the Grand Hotel at Yokohama where I stopped last year. J.H. 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. 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. Both proved far more difficult to secure than anticipated. [24], Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, particularly in 19781979, fire whirls ranging from the transient and very small to intense, long-lived tornado-like vortices capable of causing significant damage were spawned by fires generated from the 1000 MW Mtotron, a series of large oil wells located in the Lannemezan plain of France used for testing atmospheric motions and thermodynamics. Weather service issues what could be a first at California blaze, "IEM:: Valid Time Event Code (VTEC) App", Matthew Cappucci (September 13, 2020) Californias wildfire smoke plumes are unlike anything previously seen, "From fire whirls to blue whirls and combustion with reduced pollution", "Fire tornadoes: a rare weather phenomenon", Fire tornado video (whirl) 11 September 2012 Alice Springs Australia, https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/21/australian_fire_tornado/, 2013 'Fire Tornado' video. The jolt struck at 11:58 am, when many residents were cooking their lunches over open fires. Terms of Use 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. Frank Lloyd Wright received credit for designing the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, to withstand the quake, although in fact the building was damaged, though standing, by the shock. Estimates suggest that vigilantes and voluntary self-defense groups killed around 6,000 Koreans, as well as a small number of Japanese and Chinese mistaken for Koreans, in the days following the disaster.10 While news of the massacres was initially tightly controlled, within months select newspapers and journals published stinging critiques of the murderous events. Nobel nominee Junicho Tanizaki, who spent two years in Yokohama writing screenplays, marveled at a riot of loud Western colors and smellsthe odor of cigars, the aroma of chocolate, the fragrance of flowers, the scent of perfume.. Messervey, letter dated March 5, 1924. 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 false rumor was spread that Koreans were taking advantage of the disaster, committing arson and robbery, and were in possession of bombs. Hannah Gould, 'Exhibiting disaster' 47 A deep fissure opened by the earthquake, Nij Bridge, . A fire whirl can reach up to 2,000F (1,090C). As early as mid-afternoon on September 1, the day of the quake, reports, and rumors started that the Koreans had set the disastrous fires, were poisoning wells, looting ruined homes, and planning to overthrow the government. 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. A collapsing mountainside in the village of Nebukawa, west of Odawara, pushed the entire village and a passenger train carrying over 100 passengers, along with the railway station, into the sea. The statue of Takeo Hirose. 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. 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. Congestion of refugees fleeing their homes in the Ueno vicinity in Tokyo. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. The Taisho Emperor and Empress Teimei were on holiday in the mountains, and so escaped the disaster. It lasted between 4 and 10 minutes. 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. Susanna Hoffman, After Atlas Shrugs: Cultural Change or Persistence After a Disaster, in, Sat Hiroshi et al., Earthquake Source Fault Beneath Tokyo, Science 309:5733 (15 July 2005), 462465. 645 0 obj <>stream [35] Anti-Korean sentiment was heightened by fear of the Korean independence movement. The Great Kanto Earthquake obliterated all of that in a single afternoon. Okutani Fumitomo, Kant no daisaiga wa ikanaru shini ka, 13. In contrast to London, where typhoid fever had been steadily declining since the 1870s, the rate in Tokyo remained high, more so in the upper-class residential northern and western districts than in the densely populated working-class eastern district. 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. 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. 1923 Kanto earthquake intensity.png 512 512; 38 KB. In Miyaos mind, old Tokyo had been recreated.26. Over 570,000 homes were destroyed, leaving an estimated 1.9 million homeless. [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. 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. The newly deceased will take their happiest memory with them into the afterlife. The total death toll from the earthquake and its aftereffects is estimated at about 142,800. The first shock hit at 11:58 a.m., emanating from a seismic fault six miles beneath the floor of Sagami Bay, 30 miles south of Tokyo. The quake destroyed the citys water mains, paralyzing the fire department. Although both were devastated, the city of Yokohama was hit even worse than Tokyo. Fire whirls can uproot trees that are 15m (49ft) tall or more. The death toll from the temblor was estimated to have exceeded 140,000. The Fires - Kanto Earthquake of 1923 The Fires Some say timing is everything, the Great Kanto Earthquake struck around noon; lunchtime. 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. To report the devastation of September 1, 1923, Gounadoptedthe traditional horizontal format of episodes linked by text. [54] The park houses a Buddhist-style memorial hall/museum, a memorial bell donated by Taiwanese Buddhists, a memorial to the victims of World War II Tokyo air raids, and a memorial to the Korean victims of the vigilante killings. 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 unfinished battlecruiser Amagi was in drydock being converted into an aircraft carrier in Yokosuka in compliance with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Moreover, army personnel likewise took the lead in constructing relief camps which, by October, housed more than 105,000 refugees. Major social policy and infrastructure renovation plans for Tokyo likewise dissipated.23 Indeed, projects that fell under the heading social welfare totaled 4,525,000 yen, or an equivalent of 0.69 percent of the overall reconstruction budget. [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. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. In Oswald Wynd's novel The Ginger Tree, Mary Mackenzie survives the earthquake, and later bases her clothes designing company in one of the few buildings that remained standing in the aftermath. Thanks to that terrible tragedy, I'm here. Aria's birth mother is severely injured by debris and later dies, and this triggers a subplot about Aria's own heritage. A violent fire-tornado has broken out at the former site of the Army Clothing Depot in combustion caused by the destructions of the Great Kanto Earthquake at 3.30 p.m. September 1, 1923. 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. 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. 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[48] Proposed sites for the new capital were even discussed. 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. Roving bands of Japanese prowled the ruins of Yokohama and Tokyo, setting up makeshift roadblocks and massacring Koreans across the earthquake zone. ", Clancey, Gregory. Joelle Seligson is digital editor at the Freer|Sackler. For the next three days, Yonemura sent a stream of reports that alerted the world to the unfolding tragedy. On September 2, 1923, he assumed the position of Home Minister and soon thereafter became President of the Reconstruction Institute. [38] Independent reports said the number of dead was far higher, ranging from 6,000 to 10,000. The wave of good feeling between the two countries would soon dissipate, however, in mutual accusations. "Price shocks in regional markets: Japan's Great Kant Earthquake of 1923. The Great Kanto Earthquake, sometimes called the Great Tokyo Earthquake, rocked Japan on September 1, 1923. Parks were placed all over Tokyo as refuge spots, and public buildings were constructed with stricter standards than private buildings to accommodate refugees. 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 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. Samuel Robinson, the Canadian skipper of the Empress of Australia, took hundreds of refugees aboard, organized a fire brigade that kept the ship from being incinerated by advancing flames, then steered the crippled vessel to safety in the outer harbor. [27], A fire whirl, of reportedly uncommon size for New Zealand wildfires, formed on day three of the 2017 Port Hills fires in Christchurch. People fled toward the Sumida River, drowning by the hundreds when bridges collapsed. [28] The consulate itself lost the entirety of its records in the subsequent fires.[29]. [13] Extensive firestorms and even a fire whirl added to the death toll. [13] Extensive firestorms and even a fire whirl added to the death toll. At two minutes to noon a magnitude approximate 7.9 earthquake toppled structures, crushed people, and unsettled everyone who survived. In Yasunari Kawabata's 1930 novel The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa several chapters deal with the Great Kant earthquake. [55], Maurice Tourneur's 1924 silent film Torment has an earthquake in Yokohama in its plot, and uses footage of the Kant earthquake in the film.[56]. Yonemura tapped out a 19-word bulletinCONFLAGRATION SUBSEQUENT TO SEVERE EARTHQUAKE AT YOKOHAMA AT NOON TODAY. He suggested, moreover, that the urban districts that housed Tokyos pleasure quarters and commercial enterprisesareas which he concluded were covered with the dust called sin in which extravagance, merrymaking, vanity, luxury, and desire dominatedreceived the brunt of Gods wrath.16 Rather than curse God, however, Okutani suggested that God had done Japan a favor: he pointed out the weaknesses in, if not failings of, Japanese society and provided a unique opportunity to pull together and rebuild the capital as well as reconstruct the popular mind.17 To Okutani and others, such as social welfare activist and Christian socialist Abe Is and economist Fukuda Tokuz, the earthquake was, if interpreted and used correctly, a blessing, a golden, once-in-a-generation opportunity. Szczepanski, Kallie. They are provided here in raw scanned quality to preserve as much of the historical value of this document as possible", "The Earthquake and Fires - The Great Kant Earthquake.com", "1923 Kanto Earthquake: Echoes From Japan's Past", "Brother Thinks Consul Kirjassoff May Be Alive", Correspondence American Consulate In Yokohama 1931 Vol. Following the devastation of the earthquake, some in the government considered the possibility of moving the capital elsewhere. Devastating earthquakes rocked the Tokyo region many times prior to 1923. [15] Other mechanism and fire whirl dynamics may exist. The business was leveled. 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. A P&O liner, Dongola, was also in the harbor at the moment of disaster and rescued 505 people, taking them to Kobe.[30]. The RMS Empress of Australia was about to leave Yokohama harbor when the earthquake struck. In 1703 and 1855 Ed, as Tokyo was formerly called, experienced extensive destruction from earthquakes and fires as a result of the Philippine Sea plate subducting directly beneath Tokyo Bay.5 Japan is, as many commentators have suggested, an earthquake nation.6. Just eight years later, the nation took its first steps toward World War II with the invasion and occupation ofManchuria. The innovative design used to construct the Imperial Hotel, and its structural fortitude, inspired the creation of the popular Lincoln Logs toy.[51]. Inoue Junnosukes reflections in Tokyo Shisei Chsakai ed. All told, 45 percent of Tokyo burned before the last embers of the inferno died out on September 3. If one were to pour money to earthquake sufferers, why not also direct some to impoverished rural communities as well, asked MP Miwa Ichitar. The Great Kanto Earthquake turned 93 on 1st September 2016. In short, the new Tokyo would be the model high modernist city that could serve as a blueprint for all future urban renewal projects in Japan. IAIz \0V1G/^~n ^F|OY,)G~o{s:8u]:4cN}Uxi!T|yLx0F7! [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. Moreover, of the 31,166,264 square meters of residential land earmarked for land readjustment, only 2,938,050 square meters of land (9.4 percent) were readjusted for non-residential purposes, most contributing to widened roads, the creation of sidewalks, and establishment of small neighborhood parks.25 While land readjustment regularized the size of many residential land plots, Tokyos reconstruction was modeled heavily on the existing plans of pre-earthquake Tokyo. The Emperor and Empress were staying at Nikko when the earthquake struck Tokyo, and were never in any danger. 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. 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? The radio man flashed the news across the sea at the speed of sunlight, reported the New York Times, to tell of tremendous casualties, buildings leveled by fire, towns swept by tidal wavesdisorder by rioters, raging fire and wrecked bridges.. It moved Tokyo into the ranks of world metropolises., University of Melbourne historian J. Charles Schencking sees the rebuilding of Tokyo as a metaphor for something larger. e0$XS-3\q/|iBIPAl*kEc1:~t.-m-6Z.9R,z%.G4i`[UZZ{OyI H|+ #vYJL R 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]. 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. 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. Heaven (ten), he suggested, had illustrated its displeasure with society, and the people were to blame. The Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923 Hannah Gould. An interpretation that the fire-tornado has been caused by passage of a . The Great Kant earthquake [11][12] struck the Kant Plain on the main Japanese island of Honsh at 11:58:44 JST on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Flames surrounded them, and at about 4 p.m., a "fire tornado" some 300 feet tall roared through the area. Fire whirls associated with the bombing of Hamburg, particularly those of 2728 July 1943, were studied. 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. %PDF-1.6 % 1923Kanto earthquake epicenters.png 800 560; 254 KB. Twenty expatriate regulars at the Yokohama United Club, the citys most popular watering hole, died when the concrete building pancaked. Szczepanski, Kallie. They largely consist of interviews with survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators. [11] 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. Many hundreds of thousands of houses were either shaken down or burned in the ensuing fire touched off by the quake. [33][34] The Home Ministry declared martial law and ordered all sectional police chiefs to make maintenance of order and security a top priority. 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. A map detailing where the firestorms erupted and the areas that they consumed can be found in Tokyoshi. Ninety-three years ago today, the Great KantoEarthquake rocked Japan, destroyingTokyo and Yokohama and wreakingwidespread damage. [25], During the 2003 Canberra bushfires in Canberra, Australia, a violent fire whirl was documented. 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. 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 following 27 files are in this category, out of 27 total. http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=all&CISOBOX1=Japan&CISOFIELD1=covera&CISOOP2=exact&CISOBOX2=&CISOFIELD2=title&CISOOP3=any&CISOBOX3=&CISOFIELD3=title&CISOOP4=none&CISOBOX4=&CISOFIELD4=title&CISOROOT=/ic, http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2001/08/26/general/hell-on-earth-in-23/#.UeFt9XAXdU1, http://nisee.berkeley.edu/kanto/tokyo1923.pdf, "All My Eyes: Japan's Devastating Earthquake, 1923,". qT }17GGiHKzB>EW"B =-UJ6)wt^!0&tlMLl;b7"^k+D}; gYCSK )^s9sUbjl6"u16$4\mCK61:F0bb&UILUJ1CNl{o"6CB]`6fw`Z_MGtL+f2sN).e~X}V&#bdus;-;XR"S?|dp{Fre3b9S5RaDhLkNl$D^ 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. 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 initial jolt, lasting just over fourteen seconds, collapsed most of the brick and un-reinforced concrete buildings throughout the Kant region. Image of Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, after the September 1, 1923 earthquake. 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. Here and there a remnant of a building, a few shattered walls, stood up like rocks above the expanse of flame, unrecognizable.It was as if the very earth were now burning. These start with a whirl of wind, often made visible by smoke, and may occur when intense rising heat and turbulent wind conditions combine to form whirling eddies of air. Blue whirls are partially premixed flames that reside elevated in the recirculation region of the vortex-breakdown bubble. 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. Beyond transportation, however, the new Tokyo would include extensive new public housing projects, modern hospitals, preventive care clinics, schools, day care facilities, sporting grounds and parks, mobile libraries, lecture halls, public cafeterias, and neighborhood community centers. The total death toll from the disaster is estimated at about 142,800. Alternate titles: Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. The 1889 Meiji Constitution, as many politicians pointed out, guaranteed the right to private property. Your Privacy Rights Attracting entrepreneurs, fugitives, traders, spies and drifters from every corner of the world, the port rose like a mirage in the desert, wrote one Japanese novelist. The Taisho Emperor and Empress Teimei were on holiday in the mountains, and so escaped the disaster. 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