1st Edition

The Death of Old Yokohama In the Great Japanese Earthquake of 1923

By Otis Poole Copyright 1968
160 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

It was almost noon in the picturesque city of Yokohama on Saturday, September 1 st 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... Read more

1. Yokohama Before the Catastrophe  2. Saturday, September 1st  3. Sunday, September 2nd  4. Exodus  5. Phoenix  6. Aftermath  7. Index

Biography

Otis Poole