A Korean news wrote an article to criticize Japan as fake massacre following an earthquake in 1923. The ugly article is: Released photos appear to show Korean victims of past Japanese massacre
The photo is totally a fake! Of course, so the story is!
The photo has several odd things which we Japanese can clearly distinguish.
Firstly, the photo has a date at the top of frame as "大正十二年九月一日". This is totally odd. In old days, Japanese hardly wrote letters horizontally. They wrote vertically in most cases! Even if they wrote letters horizontally, they wrote from right to left, it's different from what we do. (We usually write from left to right.) So, it should be at least 日一月九年二十正大. Jeong Seong-gil should not know the fact.
The second, how can we determine people in the photo are Koreans? In the article, they say "dozens of corpses are on the ground, with their lower bodies exposed." He shouldn't know the fact that Japanese people didin't wear pants in the era when Great Kanto Earthquake happened! Lower bodies exposed? It's not surprising at all!
Finally, the article says Jeong Seong-gil released this photo recently. It's so funny! The photo has been in the collection of the following recearch center's archives for long time: Tohoku University Of Art & Design - Tohoku Colture Research Center Archives
This photo is known as a photo for victims of the fire at Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in old Japan. You can see that the photo in the research center has some area around which the fake photo doesn't has. It's impossible to draw imaginary picture in spaces around the original photo seamlessly like this. Thus, it's absolutely clear which is a fake.
Please do not be deceived by Korean fakes!
Even tough, Jeong Seong-gil is still insisting that his photo is the original photo! What does this mean? I have never heard that there is an original thing for a photo. Photos can be printed using films. Does he have the film?
This fake photo should be published by Korean media in order to back up the Korean fake story of massacre during Great Kanto Earthquake. Koreans shamelessly insist that Japanese government massacred Koreans in Japan during Great Kanto Earthquake. Certainly, it's a fake story. Koreans say Japanese government or people killed innocent Koreans, so Japanese were cruel! This is not true. Actually, some Koreans are killed. But it was because Koreans became a mob after the earthquake. Koreans firstly killed Japanese people, raped young Japanese girl, torched buildings and ravened stuffs. They did this when Japanese people were suffering due to the quake. This was a abhorrent terrorist act! All of Japanese news papers reported this painful affair at that time. Korean government is eager to rascally deny this disadvantageous fact by faking lots of stuff.
Again, please do not deceived by Korean fakes!