Ebook: The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
Author: J. Charles Schencking
- Tags: Kanto Earthquake Japan 1923, Disaster relief -- Government policy -- Japan -- History -- 20th century, City planning -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History -- 20th century, Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- 20th century, City planning -- Social aspects, Disaster relief -- Government policy, Japan, Japan -- Tokyo
- Series: Contemporary Asia in the world
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: Japan., Japan--Tokyo., Tokyo (Japan)
- Language: English
- epub
Using a rich array of materials, J. Charles Schencking tells for the first time in English or Japanese the graphic tale of the Kantō earthquake's destruction of Tokyo in 1923 and explains how and why the disaster compelled people to reflect on the state of urban, consumer society. He also examines how the unprecedented calamity encouraged inhabitants to entertain new types of modernity as they rebuilt their world.