Film Screening: “Hidden Scars: The Massacre of Koreans from the Arakawa River Bank to Shitamachi in Tokyo, 1923”

Jinhee Lee, Associate Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University

Film Screening: “Hidden Scars: The Massacre of Koreans from the Arakawa River Bank to Shitamachi in Tokyo, 1923”
[隠された爪跡 - 東京荒川土手周辺から下町の虐殺]  - (1983, 58 min, Japanese w/ English subtitles, directed by Oh Choong-kong)

Released to the English-speaking world for the first time to mark ninety years since the 1923 Kanto Earthquake and the massacre of Koreans in Japan that followed, this documentary features survivors’ testimonials and explains the natural and man-made aspects behind the disaster and tragedy.