jun 24, 1923 - Earthquake

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Sep 1 An earthquake – 7.9 on the Richter scale – hits Tokyo and surrounding areas. Rampaging flames follow that destroy 694,000 homes. Unfed homeless people roam the city. They include people of Korean descent. Pacts of Japanese attack and murder the Koreans – men, women and children – wherever they can find them. Some Chinese are also slaughtered. Police with a conservative and national security orientation take advantage of the quake and fires to strike against people with dangerous ideas. Police swoop down on hundreds of labor leaders and known socialists, communists and anarchists.

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