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The purpose of this article was to provide the foundational data for integrated research of massacres of Chosun people by Japanese military, government, and citizens at occurrence of the Great Kanto Earthquake, by identifying the massacre sites, the buried places and identities of dead Chosun people which had been little identified until now, as the methodology for integrated arrangement of the Chosun people massacre problems at the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake. However, such work can be performed after analyzing huge volume of data and precedent studies, etc. and will take a long time. Therefore, it was intended to analyze and introduce some content of The Report on Investigation of the Application for Remedy of Human Rights for the Great Kanto Earthquake attached to the Recommendation Book of Japan Federation of Bar Associations, so as to be used as the foundation of future studies concerned. The report were strictly and historically researched into the details of massacres of Chosun people and responsibilities, apologies, investigation of whole pictures and facts, and identification of the causes were asked to Japanese government; the report is deemed to be meaningful in the respect that the methodology and direction of studies was suggested. The properties of massacres of Chosun people shown in the report have been simply and clearly arranged in the thesis "Memorial and Research Activities of the Massacre of Koreans in the Aftermath of the Earthquake (關東大震災時の朝鮮人虐殺と地域における追悼·調査の活動と現狀)" authord by Tanaka Masadaka (田中正敬) , the professor of SenShu University, which was published in July 2014. In this study, therefore, the regional properties of massacres of Chosun people were identified by introducing the part of the thesis of Prof Tanaka Masadaka