Talk:1923 Great Kantō earthquake

message: This information is not cited in the article and is in fact incorrect.  There was a typhoon in Japan at the time, however, it was several hunderd kilometers to the west in the vicinity of the 能登半島 (Noto Peninsula) of Ishikawa Prefecture.  As the typhoon's centre was nowhere near the epicentre of the earthquake, there is no reason to believe that atmospheric pressure or tidal surge from the typhoon had any influence whatsoever on the earthquake's occurrence.  Winds wrapping around from the typhoon's circulation, however, were particularly strong in the Kanto region on that day, and it is considered more than likely that these contributed to fanning the flames from the fires which broke out in the quake and created the ensuing firestorm in Tokyo.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Todd Gorman (talk • contribs) 08:24, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: "Typhoon strikes Tokyo Bay"

message: Where's the proof?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.188.222 (talk) 15:26, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Korean Massacre Citation?

message: The way this page is presented is biased towards the Japanese government, stating the civilian millitia were responsible for the massacres of Koreans.
:One report of Korean rioting originate from the police.  Unfortunately, that is not a smoking guns.  The media of that period reported widely about rumour of rioting. The source of the report is from the public panic. It is not same as that report being the source of rumour in entire Tokyo. Some just took that one report from police and then jumped to conclusion. FWBOarticle 19:32, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "It is possible that the earthquake left a psychological impact of unsafety on the people cumulating with the rise of imperialism in Japan, with the purpose of getting safer lands by conquest, such as China."  This is worse.  It's outrageous! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.19.135.150 (talk) 21:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: In the section Damage we find this sentence: The damage is estimated to have exceeded one billion U.S. dollars at contemporary values. Unfortunately, the word "contemporary" is ambiguous; it means at the same time as the event being discussed but is more often used to mean modern or current. Because of this ambiguity the word should be avoided and, in this sentence, replaced with a phrase that is unambiguous. The problem is, I don't know whether the intended meaning was 1 billion 1923 dollars or 1 billion dollars as of the time of writing. Can anyone help? Pinkville 23:17, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contemporary 

message: George DeVos' "Koreans in Japan" describes "...On 3 September Ueno police captured seventy Koreans. They chopped off their arms and threw the bodies into a fire..." I am not sure if that counts as protection or not.... (216.165.24.151 23:09, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article does state that "army and police personnel are known to have condoned or even colluded in the vigilante killings in some areas". Phonemonkey 20:37, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Police protecting the Koreans???

message: I fixed what I assumed was a typo in the image caption ("Desolution of Nihonbashi and Kanda seen from the Roof of Dai-ichi Sogo Building, Kyobashi."), changing it to "Desolation". This edit was reverted by Amagase; I don't understand why, so I'm asking here... The OED only has 'desolation'. Thanks! pm215 18:13, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Your spelling was correct. I've fixed the caption again. -- Sakurambo 桜ん坊 19:05, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've uploaded the image file as misspelled name... Thanks for your correcting. --Amagase 12:17, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Desolation vs Desolution

message: From a visit to the memorial museum, and the english pamphlet:
- The current park is the place (Kyuu Yasuda Garden 旧安田)　where the refugees have burnt. (yokohami 2-3, and around. metro station ryogoku)
- This place was the a place for clothes storage for army. The place were disaffected at this time. That's why someone suggested to regroup there.
- The current temple in the park 'Tokyo-to Ireido' (to check) has been built as memorial.
- There's also a small cavity holding the books with names of the childs which perished from the earthquake.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by FCartegnie (talk • contribs) 13:30, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Facts from museum 

message: "The power and intensity was astonishing: it managed to move the 93-ton Great Buddha statue at Kamakura which was over 60 km away from the epicenter, sliding it forward almost two feet"
Considering how easily an earthquake may move a fair part of the Earth's crust by several feet, the Great Buddha weight is relatively insignificant.
Unless (and even if) there was a religious intent, I don't think this comment is relevant, and may even be misleading to people not used to earthquakes.
Zenkutsu (talk) 09:11, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move of the 93-ton Great Buddha statue in Kamakura 

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thread_title:  Dead link 

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thread_title:  Dead link 2 

message: :The josei manga and anime Kasei Yakyoku (by author Makiko Hirata) also finishes few after the earthquake, 
I'm assuming that the manga finishes a little after the earthquake, but the unit of time is missing. Is it a few days, a few weeks, or a few months? 
:The also josei manga Akatsuki no Aria (by Michiyo Akaishi) features the earthquake in volume 8.
This could also use some cleanup. 
Snakespm (talk) 16:43, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Fiction 

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message: Have not confirmed this / got a better reference: "during a 1923 Tokyo earthquake when a flaming cyclone lifted floating boats up off a river—and the river water itself nearly 50 feet into the air—before hitting a military depot in which 40,000 people had taken refuge, killing nearly all of them." from https://www.wired.com/story/west-coast-california-wildfire-infernos --TFJamMan (talk) 16:25, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add info on flaming cyclone 

message: The various Japanese names make it clear that the incident is called the "Great Earthquake" and has nothing to do with "Great Kanto"... Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 00:26, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why do we capitalize "great" but not earthquake?