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TIL during the chaos caused by the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake, the Imperial Japanese Army murdered an estimated 6,000 ethnic Koreans and Japanese socialists. The massacre is alternatively denied and celebrated by Japanese right-wing groups today.

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