sexta-feira, outubro 20, 2023
Ayrton Senna sagrou-se tricampeão de F1 há 32 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:32 0 bocas
Marcadores: automobilismo, Ayrton Senna, Ayrton Senna da Silva, Brasil, Fórmula 1, Japão, música
quarta-feira, outubro 04, 2023
O espião soviético Richard Sorge nasceu há 128 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:28 0 bocas
Marcadores: espião, Estaline, heróis, II Grande Guerra, II Guerra Mundial, Japão, Richard Sorge, URSS
quarta-feira, setembro 27, 2023
O Pacto do Eixo foi assinado há 83 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:30 0 bocas
Marcadores: Alemanha, Fascismo, II Grande Guerra, II Guerra Mundial, Itália, Japão, nazis, Pacto do Eixo
terça-feira, setembro 05, 2023
O tratado da guerra em que os japoneses venceram um país sem derrotas militares foi assinado há 118 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:18 0 bocas
Marcadores: China, Guerra Russo-Japonesa, Japão, Manchúria, Porto Arthur, Rússia, Sacalina, Tratado de Portsmouth
sábado, setembro 02, 2023
O Japão oficializou a rendição há 78 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: ata de rendição do Japão, II Grande Guerra, II Guerra Mundial, Japão, USA, USS Missouri
sexta-feira, setembro 01, 2023
Houve um inacreditável terramoto no Japão há um século...
A strong typhoon struck Tokyo Bay at about the same time as the earthquake. Some scientists, including C.F. Brooks of the United States Weather Bureau, suggested the opposing energy exerted by a sudden decrease of atmospheric pressure coupled with a sudden increase of sea pressure by a storm surge on an already-stressed earthquake fault, known as the Sagami Trough, may have triggered the earthquake. Winds from the typhoon caused fires off the coast of Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture to spread rapidly.
The Emperor and Empress were staying at Nikko when the earthquake struck Tokyo, and were never in any danger.
A tsunami with waves up to 10 m (33 ft) high struck the coast of Sagami Bay, Boso Peninsula, Izu Islands, and the east coast of Izu Peninsula within minutes. The tsunami killed many, including about 100 people along Yui-ga-hama Beach in Kamakura and an estimated 50 people on the Enoshima causeway. Over 570,000 homes were destroyed, leaving an estimated 1.9 million homeless. Evacuees were transported by ship from Kanto to as far as Kobe in Kansai. The damage is estimated to have exceeded USD$1 billion (or about $13,475 billion today). There were 57 aftershocks.
Altogether, the earthquake and typhoon killed an estimated 99,300 people, and another 43,500 went missing.
Amidst the mob violence against Koreans in the Kantō Region, regional police and the Imperial Army used the pretext of civil unrest to liquidate political dissidents. Socialists such as Hirasawa Keishichi, anarchists such as Sakae Osugi and Noe Ito, and the Chinese communal leader, Ou Kiten, were abducted and killed by local police and Imperial Army, who claimed the radicals intended to use the crisis as an opportunity to overthrow the Japanese government.
The importance of obtaining and providing accurate information following natural disasters has been emphasized in Japan ever since. Earthquake preparation literature in modern Japan almost always directs citizens to carry a portable radio and use it to listen to reliable information, and not to be misled by rumors in the event of a large earthquake.
Aftermath
Following the devastation of the earthquake, some in the government considered the possibility of moving the capital elsewhere. Proposed sites for the new capital were even discussed.
Japanese commentators interpreted the disaster as an act of divine (Kami) punishment to admonish the Japanese people for their self-centered, immoral, and extravagant lifestyles. In the long run, the response to the disaster was a strong sense that Japan had been given an unparalleled opportunity to rebuild the city, and to rebuild Japanese values. In reconstructing the city, the nation, and the Japanese people, the earthquake fostered a culture of catastrophe and reconstruction that amplified discourses of moral degeneracy and national renovation in interwar Japan.
After the earthquake, Gotō Shimpei organized a reconstruction plan of Tokyo with modern networks of roads, trains, and public services. Parks were placed all over Tokyo as refuge spots, and public buildings were constructed with stricter standards than private buildings to accommodate refugees. However, the outbreak of World War II and subsequent destruction severely limited resources.
Frank Lloyd Wright received credit for designing the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, to withstand the quake, although in fact the building was damaged by the shock. The destruction of the US embassy caused Ambassador Cyrus Woods to relocate the embassy to the hotel. Wright's structure withstood the anticipated earthquake stresses, and the hotel remained in use until 1968.
The unfinished battlecruiser Amagi was in drydock being converted into an aircraft carrier in Yokosuka in compliance with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. However, the earthquake damaged the Amagi beyond repair, leading it to be scrapped, and the unfinished fast battleship Kaga was converted into an aircraft carrier in its place.
In contrast to London, where typhoid fever had been steadily declining since the 1870s, the rate in Tokyo remained high, more so in the upper-class residential northern and western districts than in the densely populated working-class eastern district. An explanation is the decline of waste disposal, which became particularly serious in the northern and western districts when traditional methods of waste disposal collapsed due to urbanization. The 1923 earthquake led to record-high morbidity due to unsanitary conditions following the earthquake, and it prompted the establishment of antityphoid measures and the building of urban infrastructure.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:01 0 bocas
Marcadores: Disaster Prevention Day, Grande Sismo de Kanto, Honshu, Japão, sismo, sismologia, Tóquio, Yokohama
terça-feira, agosto 15, 2023
O Japão rendeu-se há 78 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: Dia V-J, II Grande Guerra, II Guerra Mundial, Japão
quarta-feira, agosto 09, 2023
A ciadade de Nagasaki foi bombardeada há 78 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: bomba atómica, bombardeamento, Fat Man, II Grande Guerra, II Guerra Mundial, Japão, Nagasaki, USA
domingo, agosto 06, 2023
Música para recordar um evento triste...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 07:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: Hiroshima, II Grande Guerra, II Guerra Mundial, Japão, Rosa de Hiroshima, Secos e Molhados
Hiroshima foi bombardeada há 78 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: Hiroshima, II Grande Guerra, II Guerra Mundial, Japão
sexta-feira, julho 07, 2023
O Incidente da Ponte Marco Polo foi há 86 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:06 0 bocas
Marcadores: China, Incidente da Ponte Marco Polo, Japão, Segunda Guerra Sino-Japonesa
segunda-feira, junho 19, 2023
Os norte-americanos divertiram-se ao tiro ao patos nas Marianas há 79 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: Batalha do Mar das Filipinas, II Grande Guerra, II Guerra Mundial, Japão, Marinha dos Estados Unidos da América, Marinha Imperial Japonesa, USA
quinta-feira, junho 15, 2023
O sismo de Sanriku provocou um mortífero tsunami há 127 anos
quarta-feira, junho 07, 2023
A Batalha de Midway terminou há oitenta e um anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:10 0 bocas
Marcadores: Batalha de Midway, II Grande Guerra, II Guerra Mundial, Japão, USA
sábado, junho 03, 2023
Harry Glicken, geólogo especialista em nuvens ardentes, morreu com uma, há 32 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:32 0 bocas
Marcadores: Harry Glicken, Japão, Monte Santa Helena, nuvem ardente, Unzen, Vulcanologia
quinta-feira, junho 01, 2023
Venceslau de Morais morreu há 94 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 09:40 2 bocas
Marcadores: China, Japão, Macau, orientalistas, oriente, Venceslau de Morais
terça-feira, maio 30, 2023
Venceslau de Morais nasceu há 169 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 16:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: China, Japão, Macau, orientalistas, oriente, Venceslau de Morais