The Kanto Massacre seen by Akira Kurozawa

 In addition to Akira Kurozawa, Kenzaburo Oe, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, was also there. Kenzaboro said it was the shock of his life. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two minutes before the lunch bell rang at 11:58 a.m. on September 1, 1923, the earth and the sky began to shake. A 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Kanto region. The Comprehensive Timeline of Modern Japan, published by Iwanami Bookstore, was a disaster of the century, with 91,344 deaths and 464,900 houses with lost radio waves. Amid the natural disaster of the intended scaremongering, the powerless people who came from colonial Joseon fell into a double quagmire until the human resources crisis and had to run here and there to support their lives. After the earthquake, scaremongering began to spread in a panic, killing some 60,000 to 10,000 Koreans (the number of Koreans killed is estimated to be at least 6,000 to 20,000). Professor Kang Deok-sang, a historian in Japan, argues that the word "will-bear" itself is also distorted. Scaremongering refers to the so-called "Carder Communication" that spreads from mouth to mouth with unclear source, and at that time, scaremongering is not a scaremongering because there is evidence that the Japanese Metropolitan Police Agency intentionally spread it. I needed a Korean scapegoat At that time, rumors such as "The Koreans release poison into the well," "Fire robbery rape," and "The Koreans will riot." These words greatly disturbed the Japanese public's sentiment, and in the midst of the panic of the earthquake, the Koreans became a common enemy of the Japanese people. The people formed an organization called the vigilante group and slaughtered Koreans when they met them, and for him, they were eager to find Koreans. Why did Japan have to spread such rumors? The social background is linked to the crisis situation in Japan in the 20s. At that time, the Japanese economy entered a recession, and the number of unemployed increased day by day. In addition, the Japanese Communist Party was established, and the rights and interests of workers and farmers were intensifying. At this time, the catastrophe was a crisis situation that could overthrow the nation's foundation. The 2.8 Declaration of Independence and the 3.1 Movement made Koreans a scapegoat to prevent riots caused by the earthquake, taking advantage of the worsening national sentiment of the Japanese and Koreans. In his autobiography "Kurozawa Akira," director Kurozawa Akira experienced and massacred, he depicts the fiction of rumors and the recklessness of the massacre of Koreans at the time of the earthquake. Let's move on to the phrase related to the Great Kanto Earthquake written in an autobiography translated from Minumsa Temple in Korea in 1994. . The adults with distorted faces are here! No, it's over there! I saw with my own eyes the swarm of the crowd, shouting. They were chasing a bearded man, and they seemed to have decided that the person with so much hair on his face could not be a Japanese. My family also went out to look for relatives who lost their homes in the fire near the Ueno area. However, just because his father grew a long beard, a group of people with clubs surrounded his father.   I looked at my father and my brother, who were standing with me, with a heart that began to flinch. My brother was smiling mockingly. At that moment, my father's anger fell. Fools! Then they were scattered and disappeared. In my neighborhood, one person was required to guard each house. But my brother laughed at all these thoughts and refused to take the turn at all. I had to go out with a bamboo sword, and they placed me in a sewer pipe that could barely pass a cat. They placed me there and said, "Koreans might go in there and hide." There was something even funnier than this. They instructed us not to drink water from one of the local wells. The reason is that strange signs are written in white chalk on the wall around the well. Their reasoning was that it could be a Korean code to indicate that the well was poisoned. I was dumbfounded. In fact, that's because the rich were the scribbles I scrawled. I couldn't help but wonder what happened to human beings, shaking my head excitedly like this.