What the records say
- When
- Sep 1923
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 6,600
- Coordinates
- 36.17° N, 139.78° E
- Description
- mass murder of Koreans in Kantō region after Kantō Earthquake 1923
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Kantō Massacre
1923 mass murder in Japan
The Kantō Massacre was a mass murder in the Kantō region of Japan committed in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. With the explicit and implicit approval of parts of the Japanese government, the Japanese military, police, and vigilantes murdered an estimated 6,000 people: mainly ethnic Koreans, but also Chinese and misidentified Japanese, and Japanese communists, socialists, and anarchists.
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