1923 Great Kantō earthquake people in Tokyo and other areas, causing major tsunamis, and creating major firestorms. In the film adaptation of "Japan Sinks", "Nihon Chinbotsu", the Sagami Trough ruptures in a massive earthquake called "The Second Great Kanto Earthquake". In the manga (comic) adaptation of "Japan Sinks", the Second Kantō Earthquake killed over five million. In the historical fantasy novel "Teito Monogatari" (Hiroshi Aramata) a supernatural explanation is given for the cause of the Great Kantō earthquake, connecting it with the principles of feng shui. In Oswald Wynd's novel "The Ginger Tree", Mary Mackenzie survives the earthquake, and later bases her clothes designing
1923 Great Kantō earthquake study engineering. On the way, the 1923 earthquake strikes, damaging the train and causing a huge fire in the city. In the 2017 josei manga "Fushigi Yûgi Byakko Senki" (by Yuu Watase), the heroine Suzuno Osugi enters "The Universe of the Four Gods" during the earthquake after her dying father Takao orders her to so she will survive the disaster. After a brief time there she's sent back to the already destroyed Tokyo and she, alongside her prospect love interest Seiji Horie and two young boys named Hideo and Kenichi, are taken in by a friend of the late Takao,