The research mainly focuses on how the researchers in the Kanto Region, especially Tokyo, reacted to the so called “riot”, rumors, and the massacre of Korean people during the Earthquake in 1923. Although there were many foolish and cold-hearted Japanese who believed that the Korean people were taking advantage of earthquake by committing arson and robbery, there were unbelievably many Japanese who did not believe such rumor through the research.
This research mainly focuses on Terada Torahiko, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Okamoto Gidou, Miyamoto Yuriko, Yoshino Sakujou, and few others of how they reacted to the Korean Massacre.
The personal work of these intellectuals prove that the act of massacre was not normal but psychologically and nationalistically a forgiveness that the Japanese should pursuit.