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The Death of Old Yokohama: In the Great Japanese Earthquake of 1923 (Routledge Library Editions: Japan) - Softcover

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Poole, Otis

 
9780415846943: The Death of Old Yokohama: In the Great Japanese Earthquake of 1923 (Routledge Library Editions: Japan)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415846943 ISBN 13: 9780415846943
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

It was almost noon in the picturesque city of Yokohama on Saturday, September 1st 1923 when the first sway of one of the world’s most destructive earthquakes was felt. The first great shock lasted for four minutes and in that time every building in the city was destroyed, together with 100,000 of its Japanese inhabitants and one eighth of its foreign community. Other shocks followed and then fire which swept through the ruins with hurricane speed, suffocating and burning to death thousands trapped in wreckage or trying to flee. A first-hand account of the disaster told by a survivor, this accurate and authentic account was written immediately after the earthquake and is here published with only minor additions and corrections

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Otis Poole

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415846943
ISBN 13 
9780415846943
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
150