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4 unusual facts about 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake


1923 Great Kantō earthquake

Frank Lloyd Wright received credit for designing the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, to withstand the quake, although in fact the building was damaged by the shock.

Amagi-class battlecruiser

Amagi and Akagi were both intended for conversion, but an earthquake damaged the hull of Amagi so extensively that the ship was scrapped.

The September 1923 Great Kantō earthquake in Tokyo caused significant stress damage to the hull of Amagi.

Japanese battleship Hiei

She patrolled off the Chinese coast on several occasions during World War I, and helped with rescue efforts following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.


Clark Daniel Stearns

After the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, Stearns lead the emergency relief efforts, and received a medal from the Japanese Red Cross; he sent this medal back to Japan following the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Fusakichi Omori

In fall 1923 Omori attended the Second Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Australia, where he and Edward Pigot, the director of the observatory at Riverview College in Sydney, Australia observed a seismograph recording the major great Kantō earthquake which destroyed Yokohama and Tokyo on 1 September 1923, killing about 140,000 and leaving 1.9 million people homeless.

Hoshino Tenchi

After his house was destroyed in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, he moved to Ashiya, Hyōgo, near Kobe, where he continued to teach Japanese calligraphy.

Red Cross Society of the Republic of China

For example, the society sent workers to San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and workers, medicines and funds were sent to Japan after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.


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