1923 Great Kantō earthquake space in which an estimated 38,000 people were killed by a single fire tornado. The park houses a Buddhist-style memorial hall/museum, a memorial bell donated by Taiwanese Buddhists, a memorial to the victims of World War II Tokyo air raids, and a memorial to the Korean victims of the vigilante killings. In Yasunari Kawabata's 1930 novel "The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa" several chapters deal with the Great Kantō earthquake. In "Japan Sinks", in one scene in the book, due to the fast-moving subduction of the Pacific and Eurasian plates, the Sagami Trough ruptures in a magnitude-8.5 earthquake, killing several million
Kanto Plainsman all Air Force newspapers was intended as key source of command information. A Japanese-language version of the paper was published for Japanese nationals working at the above-mentioned American Air Force facilities. The final issue of Kanto Plainsman, Vol. X No. 16, was published on 24 April 1970. On that date it was merged with the Yokota Air Base newspaper The Afterburner, which was renamed the Fuji Flyer. The demise of "Kanto Plainsman" occurred soon after flying operations ceased at Tachikawa and the Air Force began its Kanto Plain Consolidation Program. MSgt George E. O'Brien was the "Kanto Plainsman"'s editor for