THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 1, 2025 at 18:13 JST
Visitors offer flowers on Sept. 1 at a monument in Sumida Ward’s Yokoamicho Park for ethnic Koreas killed over a century ago following the Great Kanto Earthquake. (Shota Tomonaga)
Memorial events were held in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area on Sept. 1 to pray for the victims of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and ethnic Koreans massacred as a result of unfounded rumors falsely accusing them of looting and arson. [Read More]
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