Content note: Newspaper page attributing robbery, assault and arson to a collective 'bad/unruly Koreans' after the 1923 Kanto earthquake; photographs of earthquake ruins. This object is shown as it was published. Why
每日申報 (Maeil Sinbo), 10 September 1923, p. 3: "不良朝鮮人의暴動은如斯" (the "unruly Koreans' riot" after the Kanto earthquake)
Page 3 of the Korean-language Maeil Sinbo, nine days after the Kanto earthquake, runs the largest headline in the centre of the page over the Martial Law Commander's statement: "Robbery, assault, arson planned: the riot of the 不良朝鮮人 (bad/unruly Koreans) is thus; order restored, minds wholly calm". The tell is the group label 不良朝鮮人 attached to the listed crimes, set beside a reassurance line, over photographs of the ruined city.
- Date
- September 10, 1923
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Maeil Sinbo (Korean-language daily owned by and speaking for the Government-General of Korea), reporting a statement of Martial Law Commander Fukuda
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Korea Under Japanese Rule
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Leader
- Saito Makoto
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Techniques
- ScapegoatingName-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan from the Korea Press Foundation KINDS / National Library of Korea holding of Maeil Sinbo, September 10, 1923), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1923, before 1931; Commons tag PD-old-90)
Maeil Sinbo, 10 September 1923, p. 3; scan via Korea Press Foundation KINDS and Wikimedia Commons. Holding institution's own rights page (KINDS / National Library of Korea) not reachable from the collection environment; basis is the 1923 date and the Commons tag
Text on the object
[header, right to left] 癸亥年七月(大)三十日(丙戌)(月曜日) 每日申報 第五千六百五十六號 (三) [centre headline, largest type] 强盜、凌辱、放火를企畵 不良朝鮮人의暴動은如斯 秩序는恢復、人心은全然安定 福田戒嚴軍司令官發表 [article, opening column, as far as legible] 福田戒嚴司令官은 [illegible] 이번의 재해에 당하야 불량조선인의 폭동에 대하야 여러가지 [illegible] 진재 당초에 삼삼오오의 불량조선인이 폭동을 한 것은 사실이니 즉 횡빈(橫濱) 부근에서 일부의 조선인은 강도(强盜) 강간(强姦) 방화(放火)를 계획하얏는듯하며 [...] 불량조선인 일파의 폭동은 전연히 침뎡되얏고 동경 횡빈의 질셔는 [illegible] [other headlines on the page] 內衣一枚로써 政務를總攬하옵시는攝政宮 羅災民의窮狀을憂慮하샤 救助資金確定 第一回七億八千萬圓 猛火依然히燃燒中 大阪市에서 二十萬圓을追加하얏다 自殺한工場長 [top of page] ◇大震災諸報◇ (two photographs of the ruined city)
[header] Year Kaihai, 7th month (long), 30th day (Monday), Maeil Sinbo, no. 5,656, (p. 3) [centre headline] Robbery, assault, arson planned The riot of the 'unruly/bad Koreans' is thus Order restored, people's hearts wholly calm Announced by Martial Law Commander Fukuda [article, opening column, as far as legible] Martial Law Commander Fukuda [illegible] regarding the riot of the unruly Koreans in this disaster, [various] [illegible] at the very start of the earthquake bands of three and five unruly Koreans rioted is a fact, namely that in the vicinity of Yokohama some of the Koreans appear to have planned robbery, rape and arson [...] the riot of the band of unruly Koreans has been wholly quelled, and the order of Tokyo and Yokohama [illegible] [other headlines] With a single undergarment the Prince Regent, who takes charge of the government, is concerned for the plight of the disaster victims Relief funds fixed, first instalment 780 million yen Fierce fire still burning Osaka City has added 200,000 yen The factory manager who killed himself [top] Reports of the great disaster (two photographs)
Read from a 1920 px render of the 1280 px hosted image; the article body is only partly reproduced (opening column), with [illegible] and [...] where the print is too small or damaged to read with confidence. Old orthography and absent spaces in the original are normalised to word spacing. 不良 (Korean 불량, Japanese furyō) is translated 'unruly/bad' because both senses are in use; the term was an official label of the period. Machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
