A century on from the Great Kanto Earthquake, movements are ongoing to commemorate the massacres of Korean residents unjustly targeted in its wake by baseless rumors, alongside other innocent lives lost in the witch-hunt.Near the banks of the Arakawa River in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, a monument engraved with the Chinese character meaning "mourn" was erected by a citizens' group in 2009 after they gathered accounts from around 100 eyewitnesses to unearth historical truths."Words alone float away and disappear. We must leave something visible behind," said one of the group's founding members ahea…READ FULL ARTICLE
