Editing Yokohama (section)

===Great Kantō earthquake and the Second World War (1923–1945)===
[[File:80-G-473746 (TR-15632) (22324277654).jpg|thumb|Yokohama in the aftermath of air raids during the Second World War]]
Much of Yokohama was destroyed on September 1, 1923, by the [[1923 Great Kantō earthquake|Great Kantō earthquake]]. The Yokohama police reported casualties at 30,771 dead and 47,908 injured, out of a pre-earthquake population of 434,170.<ref>Hammer, Joshua. (2006). [https://books.google.com/books?id=6O8VyhDbUPgC&q=Tokyo+1923&pg=PA243  ''Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II'', p. 143.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205103140/https://books.google.com/books?id=6O8VyhDbUPgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Tokyo+1923&lr=&source=gbs_summary_r#PPA243,M1 |date=February 5, 2017 }}</ref> Fuelled by rumors of rebellion and sabotage, vigilante mobs thereupon murdered many Koreans in the Kojiki-yato slum.<ref>Hammer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=6O8VyhDbUPgC&q=Tokyo+1923&pg=PA149 pp. 149] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205103140/https://books.google.com/books?id=6O8VyhDbUPgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Tokyo+1923&lr=&source=gbs_summary_r#PPA149,M1 |date=February 5, 2017 }}-170.</ref> Many people believed that Koreans used [[black magic]] to cause the earthquake. [[Martial law]] was in place until November 19. Rubble from the quake was used to reclaim land for parks, the most famous being the [[Yamashita Park]] on the waterfront which opened in 1930.

Yokohama was rebuilt, only to be destroyed again by U.S. air raids during World War II. The first bombing was in the April 18, 1942 [[Doolittle Raid]]. An estimated 7,000–8,000 people were killed in a single morning on May 29, 1945, in what is now known as the Great Yokohama Air Raid, when [[B-29 Superfortress|B-29s]] firebombed the city and in just one hour and nine minutes, reducing 42% of it to rubble.<ref name="interesting1"/>