Kantō Massacre
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The Kantō Massacre was a mass murder in the Kantō region of Japan committed in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. With the explicit and implicit approval of parts of the Japanese govern
Japanese vigilantes with murdered victims in the immediate aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.
September 15: Prince Regent hearing reports at Ueno Park from Home Minister Viscount Shinpei Goto and Superintendent of political affairs of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (警視庁, Keishichō) Yuasa Kurahei − during his inspection tour over the devastated Capital.
A memorial to the victims of the massacre in Yokoamichō Park, Sumida, Tokyo (2007)
Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. With a bold and dynamic style strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it, he is
Kantō Massacre
…asked me to say "a i u e o" and recite the names of the emperors in Japanese history…. Fortunately, there was a person who recognized me. The filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, who was a child at the time, was astonished to witness the irrational behavior of the mob. On the morning of September 3, the Home Ministry of Mizuno…
Kurosawa in 1953
From the left: Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda, and Senkichi Taniguchi with their mentor Kajirō Yamamoto, late 1930s
Kurosawa (left) and Mikio Naruse (right) during the production of Avalanche (1937)
Filming of The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail, 1945