Ruins of burned streetcars after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in Tokyo. Photo: Shutterstock
‘That racism is still there’: film to relive slaughter of Koreans after Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake
Rumours that Koreans in Tokyo were looting and committing arson after the 1923 quake saw Japanese vigilantes kill them by the thousands. Filmmaker Oh Choong-kong returns to the subject 30 years after his first works
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Ruins of burned streetcars after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in Tokyo. Photo: Shutterstock