This month marks the 100th anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake that struck the greater Tokyo area. That disaster saw approximately 105,000 lives lost, of which around 91,000, or 87%, were due to firestorms that quickly spread through neighborhoods filled with densely crowded wooden homes.

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