Old photos showing Tokyo's recovery after 1923 quake recently found

Old photographs of Tokyo taken roughly two years after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 have recently been found, becoming a valuable record of how the Japanese capital recovered following the natural disaster estimated to have claimed more than 100,000 lives.The 16 photos were acquired by Keisho Ishiguro, an 81-year-old antique photo collector living in Tokyo, who purchased the collection after seeing it in an inventory that an acquaintance's antiquarian bookstore sent to him in 2017.Despite being discolored, the photos, which all measure approximately 12 centimeters by 16.5 cm, appear t…READ FULL ARTICLE