Caution over linking the Great Kanto earthquake to militarism

Was the role of the Great Kanto earthquake in the rise of Japanese militarism overstated?

A simple causal claim is overstated; chronology alone cannot establish that the earthquake produced Japan's later militarism.

The proposed link is a problem of historical causation rather than an inevitable chain of events. A major disaster can shape politics, but the fact that one event precedes another does not prove that it produced the later outcome. The post hoc fallacy shows why a single-cause explanation is inadequate for a complex political transformation. The claim needs evidence connecting the earthquake to later militarism instead of chronology alone.