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The 1923 Tokyo Quake photos in color on exhibit in September

By on August 21, 2023

A professor at University of Tokyo is working on a project to colorize photographs of the major earthquake that struck the Japanese capital and surrounding areas a century ago and create a 3D map of the quake-hit areas.

Those photos and map of the 1923 destruction are set to be exhibited for public viewing at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo on Sept. 1.

Hidenori Watanabe, the professor of information design, said that he hopes his project “will inspire people to prepare for the next disaster.”

Watanabe, who has been colorizing war and disaster related photos since 2016, posts colorized photos and their original black-and-white versions on X, formerly Twitter, every day.

The exhibition includes 10 photos, including the Nakamise shopping street in Tokyo’s Asakusa district that was under reconstruction and of tsunami damage to Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, near the capital.

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