This week Japan marks 100 years since the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed 105,000 people. Less well known is the
Over several days of horror after the quake of September 1, 1923, mobs armed with swords, iron bars and bamboo sticks went on a killing spree of Koreans living in the Tokyo region, after malicious rumours spread about the community.
“My uncle was 33 when he died. He had three children,” she said. “I first heard the story when I was around five years old… It hurts my heart.”The death toll from the 7.9-magnitude quake, one of the deadliest of the 20th century, was made much worse by huge blazes that ripped through the mostly wooden houses that made up Tokyo back then.
“It was not just vigilantes with their bamboo poles out there. The military used machine guns and that’s where the largest massacres took place,” Hasegawa told AFP. For the authorities, the Korean massacre “was a means of crowd control, of controlling the Japanese crowd, which was much larger,” he suspects.Masao Nishizaki heads Housenka, a small association based in eastern Tokyo devoted to keeping memories of the atrocity alive.
Later the Japanese army also “lined up Koreans on the river bank and executed them with machine guns,” he added.Japan has long been accused of trying to erase the memory of its crimes in Asia during its imperialistic period, often poisoning its regional relations.
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