Student letters from 1923 Kanto quake preserved by kin of U.S. president

A hefty book containing some 750 letters from Japanese students expressing gratitude for support they received from the United States after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake has been preserved by a descendant of then U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, a Japanese research team has learned.Researchers from Tohoku University and other institutions were shown the letters written in English by students from the disaster-affected areas and all over Japan. With the discovery coinciding with the centenary anniversary of the disaster, they are now calling on the public for help in understanding how lette…READ FULL ARTICLE