Beer joined sake as a favorite drink, and baseball came to compete with sumo wrestling as the nation’s favorite sport. Tokyo, like a giant sponge, absorbed the cultural and political ideas of the day and made them its own.
भूकंप से भारी नुकसान तो हुआ ही, मगर उससे भी ज़्यादा नुकसान भूकंप की वजह से लगनेवाली आग से हुआ ।