Book Review: Review of Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo, 2020

Abstract

“I was at school when the big earthquake struck. I got a terrible shock. Before long it turned into a great fire. We went to the Honjo Clothing Depot to escape the fires. My father got burned and died. My big sister was crushed by people and died. Now it is just me, my mother, my other big sister, and my big brother.” A testimony from Kimura Sayoko, a first-grader in the 1923 Great Kantω Earthquake. (The Big Earthquake 1924 [p. 66 in Earthquake Children]).