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For Koreans in Japan, this little-known massacre still carries weight – Beragampengetahuan
Hundreds are expected to gather along Tokyo’s Arakawa River on Saturday to commemorate an oft-forgotten massacre. Following the Great Kanto earthquake on Sept. 1, 1923, Japanese authorities spread rumors that immigrants from Korea – then a colony of Japan – were starting riots and poisoning city wells. More than 6,600 Koreans were killed by Japanese […]