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Exactly 100 years ago today, on 1 September 1923, the streets of Tokyo began to shudder. It was the first warning sign that something terrible was coming \u2013 a devastating earthquake that would level much of the city. But, as historian Dr Christopher Harding tells Ellie Cawthorne, the Great Kant\u014d earthquake wasn\u2019t just a natural disaster \u2013 it also exposed deep lying social and political divides.\n\n(Ad) Christopher Harding is the author of The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives (Allen Lane, 2020). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/India-Second-World-War-Emotional/dp/1787389456/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty\n\nThe HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices