Great Kanto Earthquake Relief Commemorative Badge/日本赤十字社関東大震災救護記念章

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大正十二年九月 - September 1923

関東大震災 - Great Kanto Earthquake

救護記念 - Relief Commemorative

日本赤十字社 - Japanese Red Cross Society

 

Original case.

救護記念 - Relief Commemorative

Badge.

 

Size.

 

In September 1923, Tokyo became a hell on earth. In less than three days, a magnitude approximate 7.9 earthquake and subsequent conflagrations reduced nearly half of Japan’s capital to a blackened, rubble-filled, corpse-strewn wasteland of desolation. The human tragedy of over 120,000 killed and 2 million left homeless was matched in severity by the economic cost of the damage inflicted: it was roughly four times larger than Japan’s national budget of 1923 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_Great_Kantō_earthquake

 

With added suspension and with cardboard case (for today impossible to say with certainty original or not) from Sato General Partnership Company, Fukuoka https://asiamedals.info/threads/bad...to-general-partnership-company-fukuoka.22843/

 

Another example of cased specimen in original balsa case.