Japan's Silly Cruel Kandong Massacre

 Summary of the Kanto Massacre September 1st, 1923 (일본 12) 12th, Japan) 11:58 a.m. A major earthquake and a massacred incident that occurred in Kanto, Japan. On September 1, 1923, thousands of innocent Koreans were slaughtered using the earthquake to spread fabricated wills. The epicenter of the earthquake was Sagami Bay (139.3 in Tokyo), 35.2 in the north, and 40 kilometers in depth, but it also caused major disasters throughout the Kanto region and two prefectures, Shizuoka and Yamanashi. Magnitude was 7.9 and maximum progress was 7. According to data from the Japan Meteorological Administration, 99,331 people died, 43,476, 128,266 houses, 126,233 houses, 447,128 houses, and 868 lost houses. In particular, in Tokyo and Yokohama, a large city, most of the damage was caused by the fire, and the number of deaths from the collapse of the building was around 2,000 confirmed in Tokyo, and the death toll from the fire reached 60,000. Many people were evacuating from the Army Shelf Site Square in Honjo, Tokyo, where the strong wind blew from the Sumida River, and the evacuation package began to catch fire, and 40,000 people were burned. The earthquake was even more affected because it occurred in Tokyo and Yokohama, the centers of Japan. Moreover, Japan, which was caught up in a whirlwind of economic depression after World War I, faced a national crisis due to this disaster. The Yamamoto Konnoe Cabinet, which was launched the day after the earthquake, had to declare martial law to settle public sentiment, and had to create a sense of crisis to declare martial law, which Koreans in Japan used to create a sense of crisis. In other words, the Korean people systematically spread rumors that they were rioting, and martial law was declared as of 6 p.m. on the day when public anxiety reached its peak. In addition, their officials organized a task force such as a will-and-mouth team, a command team, and an execution team to convince the people of the rumor, and manipulated it as if it had been committed by the Koreans. The Japanese people believed the Korean riot theory as it was, and as a retaliatory measure, they organized a vigilante group in each province. The number was 1,593 in Tokyo, 603 in Kanagawa, 300 in Saitama, 366 in Chiba, 336 in Ibaragi, 469 in Gunma, and a total of 3,689 vigilante groups were organized. In this way, the Korean genocide was carried out by the military police and vigilante groups. The number of Koreans slaughtered is not certain, but Sakuzo Yoshino counted 2,534 in his book Pressure and Massacre, and Kim Seung-hak counted 6,066 in the History of the Korean Independence Movement. In this regard, nine people, including Japanese labor leader Keishichi Hirazawa, were arrested and slaughtered at the Kameido Police Station on Sept. 3, and on Sept. 16, Sakae Osagi and Noe Ito, his wife, killed by the military police captain Masahiko Amakasu. The total amount of damage Japan suffered from the earthquake was 6.5 billion yen, and after that, Japan established the Institutional Rehabilitation Council and the Rehabilitation Agency to repair the disaster, but the atrocity of the Japanese warlords that slaughtered innocent Koreans remained an indelible stain in Japanese history.