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Kantō Massacre

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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.

Kantō Massacre - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1923 mass murder in Japan Not to be confused with Gando Massacre . Kantō Massacre Part of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake Japanese vigilantes with murdered victims in the immediate aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake . Location Kantō region , Japan Date September 1923  ( 1923-09 ) Target Koreans , Chinese people, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] anarchists , communists , and socialists [ 3 ] Attack type Pogrom Summary executions Massacres Mass murder Ethnic cleansing Weapons Firearms , Japane

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