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The purpose of this papar is to reconsider the significance of the memory of the Great Kantō Earthquake genocide against the backdrop of the rise of hate sentiment in Japan since the 2000s. As the historical revisionism wielded influence since the 1990s, the memory of the Great Kantō Earthquake massacre have been denied and whitewashed in Japan. However, that tragic memory was brought back to many people when strong anti-Korean sentiment surfaced in Japan. The novels by the zainichi authors, such as Ushio Fukazawa’s Midori to Aka (2015), Yongdeok Lee’s Anata ga Watashi o Takeyari de Tsukikorosu Mae ni (2020), and Young-chi Hwang’s Zenya (2015) commonly depicted the social conditions of contemporary Japan which is overlaid with hate speech and fear evoked by the memories of the Great Kanto Earthquake genocide. Listening to the echoes of the Great Kantō Earthquake that reverberated in the literary texts of contemporary Japan as a premonition of violence and take on it as something that would be no longer somebody else’s pain, may paradoxically open up the possibilities to resist hatred and violence we are witnessing today.

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