Horrible Massacres Committed By Japan . The Kanto Massacre was a mass murder in the Kanto region committed in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. With the explicit and implicit approval of parts of the Imperial Japanese government, the Japanese military, police, and vigilantes murdered an estimated 6,000 people. Not only Koreans, but also Chinese and Japanese people mistaken to be Korean, and Japanese communists, socialists, and anarchists.
The massacre began on the day of the earthquake, September 1, 1923, and continued for three weeks. Meanwhile, government officials met and created a plan to suppress information about and minimize the scale of the killings.
