Dr Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding is a senior lecturer in Asian history at the University of Edinburgh, and author of The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives (Allen Lane, 2020)

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Swathes of Tokyo lie in ruins after the Great Kantō Earthquake on 1 September 1923

20th Century

The Great Kantō earthquake: a 1923 disaster that left Tokyo in ruins