Capitalizing on catastrophe: Reinvigorating the Japanese state with moral values through education following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake

Article Abstract:

The total devastation of Tokyo in September 1923 due to the Great Kanto Earthquake resulted in not only the physical devastation of a city but also the psychological weakening of a population, and the government was quick to capitalize on this catastrophe. The army together with the Ministry of Education made moral and physical training of young subjects their top priority and the reordering and reinvigoration of Japanese society continued to resonate throughout the nation.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Portrayals, 20th century AD, Tokyo, Japan, Educational aspects

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Catastrophe, opportunism, contestation: The fractured politics of reconstructing Tokyo following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923

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Japan in 1923 faced one of the most deadliest, economically costly, and physically devastating earthquake in history whereby much of Tokyo and the surrounding Kanto region were destroyed. Disasters of this magnitude can either unite kinship groups, local communities, and even nation sates or divide them due to political reconstruction projects and processes as it did in 1923 Japan.

1923 AD

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The imperial Japanese navy and the constructed consciousness of a South Seas destiny, 1872-1921

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A chronology is presented on Japan's naval strategy in the South Pacific in the years preceding World War II. Topics include economic and commercial pressures, the political advantages of trade route dominance and the appeal of regional natural resources such as oil.

Military policy, Japan. Maritime Self Defense Forces, Naval history, Militarism

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