Thank you in for including this harrowing account of the Great Kantō earthquake. I would also like to add that Frank Lloyd Wright the American architect had just completed a masterpiece of 1920s architecture and interior design with the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo just before the earthquake. It had survived due to Wright's forward ideas on how to make the building cope with Japan's frequent earthquake's. After the earthquake it was one of the few remaining structures in the city and was used as a shelter, hospital, city hall, police station and still as a hotel to doctors and the press covering the tragedy.
I have lived in Tokyo for about half of my adult life. From my experience here, I doubt the city is prepared for another earthquake such as that of 1923.
Thank you for the latest video . It is good however morbid it may seem to keep the memory of these kinds of events alive . History has a habit of repeating itself so any lessons learnt from the past needs to be remembered .
This was approximately 18 months or 1.5 years before the tri state tornado in the American midwest in mid March 1925. The fire tornado in Honjo was not a large as the tri state tornado or as fast moving, or not even a tornado born from a thunderstorm but it certainly was much more deadlier. The tri state tornado caused 695 fatalities compared to the fire tornado in honjo causing 38,000.
I don't have a ranked list yet, but some of the ones that come to my mind would be "The Circus" (1928), "The Freshman" (1925), "Metropolis" (1927), "Neighbors" (1920), and if you want some really weird/artsy films, you can try "A Page of Madness" (1926) and "Un Chien Andalou" (1929)
ua-cam.com/video/Llsj8U8Jle4/v-deo.html Here a timestamp to another harrowing eyewitness account from the famous first German Buddhist monk Nyanatiloka Thera's autobiography. 100 years ago 😢
Thank you in for including this harrowing account of the Great Kantō earthquake. I would also like to add that Frank Lloyd Wright the American architect had just completed a masterpiece of 1920s architecture and interior design with the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo just before the earthquake. It had survived due to Wright's forward ideas on how to make the building cope with Japan's frequent earthquake's. After the earthquake it was one of the few remaining structures in the city and was used as a shelter, hospital, city hall, police station and still as a hotel to doctors and the press covering the tragedy.
Yes, but the Imperial Hotel was built on unstable ground and settled into the dirt. It had to be torn down in 1968.
I have lived in Tokyo for about half of my adult life. From my experience here, I doubt the city is prepared for another earthquake such as that of 1923.
Today is 100th year sad 😔 anniversary of Great Kanto earthquake that struck and devastated Japan
Wow … such a difference in journalism then and later. You’re the man. Thanks. :)
Thank you for the latest video . It is good however morbid it may seem to keep the memory of these kinds of events alive . History has a habit of repeating itself so any lessons learnt from the past needs to be remembered .
This was approximately 18 months or 1.5 years before the tri state tornado in the American midwest in mid March 1925. The fire tornado in Honjo was not a large as the tri state tornado or as fast moving, or not even a tornado born from a thunderstorm but it certainly was much more deadlier. The tri state tornado caused 695 fatalities compared to the fire tornado in honjo causing 38,000.
Very nicely done, thank you for sharing these looks into history.
Thank you for making these videos. I was wondering if you have a list of 1920 films you would suggest watching?
I don't have a ranked list yet, but some of the ones that come to my mind would be "The Circus" (1928), "The Freshman" (1925), "Metropolis" (1927), "Neighbors" (1920), and if you want some really weird/artsy films, you can try "A Page of Madness" (1926) and "Un Chien Andalou" (1929)
@@The1920sChannel if you digging more information japanes killed more than 6000 Korean refugees and chinese~~
Has it really been one hundred and one years since?
Horus' Beak and Talons... a full bloody century and one year.
ua-cam.com/video/Llsj8U8Jle4/v-deo.html
Here a timestamp to another harrowing eyewitness account from the famous first German Buddhist monk Nyanatiloka Thera's autobiography.
100 years ago 😢
led directly to Army control and WW2
… the earthquake lead to Army control and WW2? Am I missing something?
It's been 100 years this year. How fast the time flow
And how the times and styles have changed.