Lex Anteinternet: Great Kantō Earthquake (関東大地震)

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Monday, September 11, 2023

Tuesday September 11, 1923. Destroyers destroyed, Non Nipponese murdered, Italy fuming for annexation.

German military police shot and killed six people in a riot of unemployed.

Saturday, September 2, 2023

Sunday, September 2, 1923. Japanese Choas

Admiral Yamamoto Gonnohyōe was installed as Prime Minister of Japan for the second in the wake of the death of Katō Tomosaburō, who had died on August 24.

The Kantō Massacre (関東大虐殺) of non-Japanese minorities began in Japan in the aftermath of the earthquake of hte prior day. Vigilantes targeted Korean on the island of Honshu, at first with the encouragement of local police, and then with the participation of police and the Imperial Japanese Army. Approximately 6,000 people of Korean, Chinese or Ryukyuan descent were killed following rumors that minorities were seeking to overthrow the Japanese government during the chaos following the earthquake. The violence would continue through the 16th with the Army turning on left wing groups.

100,000 German nationalist gathered in Nuremberg for "German Day", comm orating the German victory over the French at Sedan in the Franco Prussian War. In Stuttgart, German Chancellor Gustav Stresemann suggested that passive resistance to French occupation should end.

Friday, September 1, 2023

Saturday, September 1, 1923. The Great Kantō Earthquake (関東大地震).

An earthquake struck Tokyo, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, that killed over 120,000 people.

Much of that would have been due to construction conditions.

Nihonbashi and Kanda seen from the roof of Dai-ichi Sogo building.

President Coolidge sent a message to the Emperor of Japan as a result of the earthquake

Washington, September 1, 1923.
At the moment when the news of the great disaster which has befallen the people of Japan is being received I am moved to offer you in my own name and in that of the American people the most heartfelt sympathy and to express to your Majesty my sincere desire to be of any possible assistance in alleviating the terrible suffering to your people.

Calvin Coolidge

The League of Nations met to discuss Italian aggression at Corfu. Italy let the League know that it would ignore the League.

Rocco Marchegiano, better known as Rocky Marcianao, was born in Brockton, Massachusetts.

September 1, 1923.

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