The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II
Edición de la obra Yokohama Burning
| Autor | Joshua Hammer |
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| Editorial | Free Press |
| Fecha de publicación | August 29, 2006 |
| Lugar | New York, London |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 336 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780743264655 |
| ISBN-10 | 0743264657 |
| OCLC | 67774380 |
| LCCN | 2006046200 |
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Yokohama Burning is 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 Joshua 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. - Publisher.