1923 Great Kantō Earthquake
Event · 1 September 1923 · Tokyo, Japan
The earthquake of 1 September 1923 that destroyed much of Tokyo and Yokohama; Mason notes how the new steel-reinforced concrete buildings of Tokyo withstood it1. Mason 2005, p. 348. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.