Kanto Massacre of Koreans

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anti-Korean violence crime against civilians ethnic violence massacre pogrom

The Kanto Massacre of Koreans was a 1923 wave of mob and military violence in Japan in which thousands of Koreans were killed amid false rumors and xenophobic panic following the Great Kanto Earthquake.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Japanese authorities participated in repression of Koreans	1
Kanto Massacre	1
Kanto Massacre of Koreans canonical	1
関東大震災朝鮮人虐殺事件	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	anti-Korean violence ⓘ crime against civilians ⓘ ethnic violence ⓘ massacre ⓘ pogrom ⓘ
aftermath	censorship and suppression of information by Japanese authorities ⓘ limited prosecutions of perpetrators ⓘ long-term trauma in Korean communities in Japan ⓘ
alsoTargetedGroup	Chinese residents in Japan ⓘ Japanese anarchists ⓘ Japanese labor activists ⓘ Japanese socialists ⓘ
approximateNumberOfVictims	between several thousand and over 10,000 ⓘ
cause	anti-Korean racism in Japan ⓘ false rumors about Koreans ⓘ social unrest after the Great Kanto Earthquake ⓘ xenophobic panic ⓘ
commemoratedBy	memorial ceremonies in Japan ⓘ memorial ceremonies in South Korea ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ
endTime	1923-09-15 ⓘ
governmentRole	Japanese authorities failed to protect Koreans ⓘ Kanto Massacre of Koreans self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Japanese authorities participated in repression of Koreans
hasJapaneseName	Kanto Massacre of Koreans self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 関東大震災朝鮮人虐殺事件
hasPart	military violence ⓘ mob violence ⓘ
historicalContext	Japanese imperialism in East Asia ⓘ Japanese rule over Korea ⓘ
languageOfName	Japanese ⓘ
location	Chiba ⓘ surface form: Chiba Prefecture Gunma Prefecture ⓘ Kanagawa Prefecture ⓘ Kantō region ⓘ surface form: Kanto region Saitama Prefecture ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ Yokohama ⓘ
mainVictim	ethnic Koreans ⓘ
mediaRole	Japanese newspapers spread false rumors about Koreans ⓘ
numberOfVictims	thousands of Koreans ⓘ
perpetrator	Japanese military units ⓘ Japanese mobs ⓘ Japanese police ⓘ Japanese vigilantes ⓘ
relatedEvent	Great Kanto earthquake ⓘ surface form: Great Kanto Earthquake
rumorContent	Koreans were committing arson ⓘ Koreans were planning uprisings ⓘ Koreans were poisoning wells ⓘ
significance	key event in the history of Koreans in Japan ⓘ major episode of ethnic violence in modern Japanese history ⓘ
startTime	1923-09-01 ⓘ
temporalContext	after the Great Kanto Earthquake ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Kanto Massacre of Koreans
Description of subject: The Kanto Massacre of Koreans was a 1923 wave of mob and military violence in Japan in which thousands of Koreans were killed amid false rumors and xenophobic panic following the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Korea under Japanese rule → notableEvent → Kanto Massacre of Koreans ⓘ

Great Kanto earthquake → associatedPogrom → Kanto Massacre of Koreans ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kanto Massacre

Kanto Massacre of Koreans → governmentRole → Kanto Massacre of Koreans self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japanese authorities participated in repression of Koreans

Kanto Massacre of Koreans → hasJapaneseName → Kanto Massacre of Koreans self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: 関東大震災朝鮮人虐殺事件