By SHIRO MAEDA/ Editorial Writer
October 1, 2023 at 16:31 JST
The cenotaph in honor of Tsunekichi Okawa, erected by Koreans he saved, stands at a temple in Yokohama’s Tsurumi Ward. (Shiro Maeda)
Tsunekichi Okawa was a police officer credited with sheltering ethnic Koreans from mob madness in Yokohama following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake as rumors swept the disaster areas that they had poisoned water wells, resulting in a massacre. [Read More]
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