{"product_id":"books-yokohama-burning-by-joshua-hammerman","title":"Yokohama Burning","description":"The story of the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century: the earthquakes, fires, and tsunamis of September 1923 that destroyed Yokohama and most of Tokyo and killed 140,000 people during two days of horror. Piecing together a minute-by-minute account, journalist Hammer re-creates harrowing scenes of death, escape, and rescue. He also places the tumultuous events in the context of history and demonstrates how they set Japan on a path to even greater tragedy: the massive, American-led relief effort seemed to promise a bright new era in U.S.-Japanese relations, but, Hammer asserts, the calamity led in fact to a hardening of racist attitudes in both Japan and the United States, and drove Japan into the hands of radical militarists with imperial ambitions.--From publisher description.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53505442971921,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780743264662.jpg?v=1778096919","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/books-yokohama-burning-by-joshua-hammerman","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}