<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantō_Massacre" id="mwmw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kantō Massacre">Kantō Massacre</a>: Amid rumors that Koreans had been conducting acts of sabotage in the aftermath of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_Great_Kantō_earthquake" id="mwnA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1923 Great Kantō earthquake">1923 Great Kantō earthquake</a>, lynch mobs of Japanese begin massacring thousands of civilians over the course of several weeks, mainly ethnic minorities such as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainichi_Koreans" id="mwnQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Zainichi Koreans">Koreans</a> and Chinese.<sup about="#mwt44" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_2#cite_note-7" id="mwng" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwnw">[7]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt48" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_2#cite_note-8" id="mwoA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwoQ">[8]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt52" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_2#cite_note-9" id="mwog" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwow">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt41" class="citation journal cs1" id="CITEREFHasegawa2022">Hasegawa, Kenji (June 15, 2022). <a class="external text" href="https://apjjf.org/2022/12/Hasegawa.html" id="mwB0o" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"The 8 p.m. Battle Cry: The 1923 Earthquake and the Korean Sawagi in Central Tokyo"</a>. <i id="mwB0s">The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus</i>. <b id="mwB0w">20</b> (12)<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB00">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB04">July 8,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt41" class="Z3988" id="mwB08" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Asia-Pacific+Journal%3A+Japan+Focus&amp;rft.atitle=The+8+p.m.+Battle+Cry%3A+The+1923+Earthquake+and+the+Korean+Sawagi+in+Central+Tokyo&amp;rft.volume=20&amp;rft.issue=12&amp;rft.date=2022-06-15&amp;rft.aulast=Hasegawa&amp;rft.aufirst=Kenji&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapjjf.org%2F2022%2F12%2FHasegawa.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeptember+2"></span></span>