The Kantō Massacre (關東大虐殺; Korean: 간토대학살) was a mass murder in the Kantō region of Japan committed in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. With the explicit and implicit approval of parts of the Japanese government, the Japanese military, police, and vigilantes murdered an estimated 6,000 people: mainly ethnic Koreans, but also Chinese and misidentified Japanese, and Japanese communists, socialists, and anarchists.
The Kantō Massacre (關東大虐殺; Korean: 간토대학살) was a mass murder in the Kantō region of Japan committed in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. With the explicit and implicit approval of parts of the Japanese government, the Japanese military, police, and vigilantes murdered an estimated 6,000 people: mainly ethnic Koreans, but also Chinese and misidentified Japanese, and Japanese communists, socialists, and anarchists.
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