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Film Review: Kamikaze Girls [Shimotsuma Monogatari], Jinhee Lee
Film Review: Kamikaze Girls [Shimotsuma Monogatari], Jinhee Lee
Jinhee Lee
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Commemorating The Great Kantō Earthquake: Futei Senjin And The Politics Of Mourning In The Japanese Empire [관동대지진을 추도함: 일본 제국에 있어서의 '불령 선인'과 추도의 정치학], Jinhee Lee
Jinhee Lee
On September 1, 1923, two minutes before noon, the earth began to shake, signaling the biggest natural disaster in modern Japan. A fierce wind and raging fire followed what came to be known as the Great Kantō Earthquake, devastating the densely populated Tokyo metropolitan area. The experience of calamity soon became subject to human interpretation and political manipulation, leading to organized violence against Koreans in the metropole. Triggered by rumors that Koreans were committing arson, poisoning the water, and plotting an uprising, local vigilantes and government authorities massacred approximately six thousand Koreans. In the year following the catastrophe, various commemorative …
The Enemy Within: Earthquake, Rumors, And Massacre In The Japanese Empire, Jinhee Lee
The Enemy Within: Earthquake, Rumors, And Massacre In The Japanese Empire, Jinhee Lee
Jinhee Lee
The experience of violence has powerful consequences in the transformation of history. The 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake marked a moment of unprecedented material destruction and cultural rupture in the Japanese empire. The disaster soon became subject to human interpretation and political manipulation, for the trauma of the earth tremors and subsequent fire produced not only physical chaos, but also rumours and violence against the colonized in the metropolitan area. Such violence manifested itself in the massacre of Koreans immediately following the earthquake-triggered by rumours of arson, murder, and riots by Koreans in the Tokyo-Yokohama area. Despite the shock of rumours …