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Christopher Harding revisits the catastrophic earthquake that levelled much of Tokyo 100 years ago <\/p>

By Ellie Cawthorne\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 01 September 2023 at 06:05 AM<\/p>

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Exactly 100 years ago today, on 1 September 1923, the streets of Tokyo began to shudder. It was the first warning sign that something terrible was coming \u2013 a devastating earthquake that would level much of the city. But, as historian Dr Christopher Harding tells Ellie Cawthorne, the Great Kant\u014d earthquake wasn\u2019t just a natural disaster \u2013 it also exposed deep lying social and political divides.<\/p>\n\n

Christopher Harding is the author of The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives<\/em> (Allen Lane, 2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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