A devastated landscape, almost everything burned to the ground. This is Yokohama after the Great Kantō Earthquake of September 1, 1923, this year exactly one century ago. How could anybody have survived?
Having experienced the March 11, 2011 disaster in Tokyo, I’m very grateful after reading this that Tokyo wasn’t consumed by flames. It took me over 3 hours to walk home but the crowd of fellow travelers was friendly and there seemed to be no danger of being massacred like the Koreans in 1923. We live under the threat of earthquakes happening any moment, but still we live here hoping they won’t happen again.
Thankfully, Japan learned a lot from 1923. I'd like to think that as long as there is the current stability Japan will not experience something like that again.
Glad you got home safe in 2011!
The next afternoon I drove into Fukushima on my way to the quake's epicenter near Sendai to cover the aftermath when the first news came in over my radio about an explosion at the nearby nuclear power plant. I was at the wrong place at the wrong time…
Having experienced the March 11, 2011 disaster in Tokyo, I’m very grateful after reading this that Tokyo wasn’t consumed by flames. It took me over 3 hours to walk home but the crowd of fellow travelers was friendly and there seemed to be no danger of being massacred like the Koreans in 1923. We live under the threat of earthquakes happening any moment, but still we live here hoping they won’t happen again.
Thankfully, Japan learned a lot from 1923. I'd like to think that as long as there is the current stability Japan will not experience something like that again.
Glad you got home safe in 2011!
The next afternoon I drove into Fukushima on my way to the quake's epicenter near Sendai to cover the aftermath when the first news came in over my radio about an explosion at the nearby nuclear power plant. I was at the wrong place at the wrong time…