Comments on: Tokyo Earthquake Diary, 1923

By: links for 2007-09-09 « Newsbong: Because News Matters, Kinda

links for 2007-09-09 « Newsbong: Because News Matters, Kinda — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:23:13 +0000

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By: Aceface

Aceface — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:23:59 +0000

If you count the bombings on the11th then that could be so.

By: Brutus Cato

Brutus Cato — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:37:37 +0000

I was under the impression the losses from the tokyo firebombing were closer to 150,000

By: Aceface

Aceface — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:16:20 +0000

Ooops.Raymond died in 1976.

By: Aceface

Aceface — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:14:53 +0000

There is one part of Tokyo that learned the lesson of the earth quake.Kanda,a sector known for the concentration of the rare second hand bookshops.Because many bookshops and the libraries had turned to ashes after the earthquakes,the shop owners asked city to finance to build second floor buildings that you can still see today.(They survuved the fire bombings too).

Frank Lloyd Wright’s student, Czech architect Antonin Raymond stayed and worked in Japan ever after Wright had left.Raymond designed many modernism buildings in Japan until 1937.After returned to the States he helped Gen,Curtis LeMay building model city resembling Tokyo downtown in the desert of New Mexico testing to cause firestorm by firebombing.It was the data that the American had obtained during the relief mission in the great earthquake and Raymond’s career in Tokyo made possible of the Tokyo Air Raid in March 10,1945 that scorched 1/3 of Tokyo and 80,000 citizens.
Raymond came back to Tokyo in 1948 and lived there until 1973.He died in 1974.

By: Chief Wiggum

Chief Wiggum — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:00:54 +0000

Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Imperial Hotel which opened in 1923. Because of the danger of earthquakes, he designed the building so that its various parts could move independently without collapsing. It was one of the few structures of its size that survived the quake pretty much intact.

By: Rommel

Rommel — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:53:24 +0000

I wonder how much the planning and infrastructure changes helped when Tokyo was firebombed by us (Americans) in the 1940s. Of course, they tragically continued to build everything out of wood and the conflagarations continued..