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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Hammer, Joshua, 1957- Yokohama burning. New York : Free Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2006046200 (OCoLC)67774380 |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joshua Hammer |
OCLC Number: | 607754357 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | September 1, 1923 -- City of silk -- The morning before -- On the waterfront -- The catfish and the keystone -- Inferno -- Tokyo burning -- Rescue -- Massacres -- Spreading the news -- Going home. |
Responsibility: | Joshua Hammer. |
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Abstract:
The story of the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century: the earthquakes, fires, and tsunamis of September 1923 that destroyed Yokohama and most of Tokyo and killed 140,000 people during two days of horror. Piecing together a minute-by-minute account, journalist Hammer re-creates harrowing scenes of death, escape, and rescue. He also places the tumultuous events in the context of history and demonstrates how they set Japan on a path to even greater tragedy: the massive, American-led relief effort seemed to promise a bright new era in U.S.-Japanese relations, but, Hammer asserts, the calamity led in fact to a hardening of racist attitudes in both Japan and the United States, and drove Japan into the hands of radical militarists with imperial ambitions.--From publisher description.
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