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Kantō Massacre: Amid rumors that Koreans had been conducting acts of sabotage in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, lynch mobs of Japanese murdered thousands of ethnic minorities such as Koreans and Chinese over the course of several weeks.
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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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
Major earthquake in Japan
The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake was a megathrust earthquake that struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshu at 11:58:32 JST on Saturday, 1 September 1923. It had an approximate magnitude of 8.0 on the moment magnitude scale (Mw), with its epicenter located 60…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)