Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923

Abstract: Disaster is an ever-present, and ever-timely, concern both in Japan and around the globe. The three-way catastrophe of 3.11 and its comprehensive media insurance coverage are a dazzling pointer not just of catastrophe’s important and catalytic function in background, yet the vibrant firm of pictures in moderating our experiences of all-natural or manufactured occasions to create that background. The 1923 Great Kant ō Earthquake, which ravaged the significant cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, along with 5 various other bordering prefectures, was one of the globe’s worst all-natural catastrophes of the very early the twentieth century. In terms of loss of life and product damages, with an approximated 140,000 fatalities and many homeless, it is still Japan’s worst nationwide catastrophe. Having significant the 100th wedding anniversary of the quake on September 1 ^st, we have a possibility to discover once again from the media range of this disaster, exactly how various media …