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May 26, 2024
1923 Kanto Massacre; Documentary Film Screening
From: David H. Slater <dhslater@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/05/10
1923 Kanto Massacre; Documentary Film Screening
(Directed by Kim Taeyeong, Korea, 118 minutes; in Japanese)
Date and Location:
4:00 PM May 13 (Mon)
The National Diet of Japan (House of Councillors), Tokyo
(Directed by Kim Taeyeong, Korea, 118 minutes; in Japanese)
Date and Location:
4:00 PM May 13 (Mon)
The National Diet of Japan (House of Councillors), Tokyo
Please check the link for full and up to date information.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/all_
The experience of violence has powerful consequences in the transformation of culture. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 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 earth tremors and subsequent fire produced not only physical chaos but also rumors and violence against the colonized in the metropole. Such violence manifested itself in the massacre of Koreans immediately following the earthquake--triggered by rumors of arson, murder, rape, and rebellious riots by Koreans in the Tokyo-Yokohama area. Despite the shock of the rumors and the violence, the lack of critical evidence and the contradictions in the testimonies has rendered the incident a historical enigma, panic-driven aberration, or conspiracy in modern Korea and Japan. After a century, film 1923 Kanto Massacre traces the ways in which the historical narratives and memories of the colonial violence have been constructed, haunting those whose lives were never the same after encountering the manmade mayhem.
See the detailed schedule and the film excerpt at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/all_
The experience of violence has powerful consequences in the transformation of culture. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 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 earth tremors and subsequent fire produced not only physical chaos but also rumors and violence against the colonized in the metropole. Such violence manifested itself in the massacre of Koreans immediately following the earthquake--triggered by rumors of arson, murder, rape, and rebellious riots by Koreans in the Tokyo-Yokohama area. Despite the shock of the rumors and the violence, the lack of critical evidence and the contradictions in the testimonies has rendered the incident a historical enigma, panic-driven aberration, or conspiracy in modern Korea and Japan. After a century, film 1923 Kanto Massacre traces the ways in which the historical narratives and memories of the colonial violence have been constructed, haunting those whose lives were never the same after encountering the manmade mayhem.
See the detailed schedule and the film excerpt at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/all_
Posters:
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/
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David H. Slater, Ph.D.
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Graduate Program in Japanese Studies
Sophia University, Tokyo
Sophia University, Tokyo
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