Kobe and Wagyu beef are synonymous with luxury and culinary excellence. While they share many qualities, there are subtle ...

With the increasing number of foreign residents, the importance of Japanese language education is on the rise. Starting from ...

A memorial event for thousands of victims of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake has started in Kobe City, western Japan, on ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled ...

Tremors in the Nankai Trough, south of Kobe, have increased recently as seismologists flag higher risks of a major quake in ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday (Jan 17) marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 ...

For Itsuka Kikuchi, the now 45-year-old who lived in the quake-hit home at the time, the sunflowers were a psychological ...

At the Higashi Yuenchi park in Kobe’s Chuo Ward, about 6,500 bamboo and paper lanterns were arranged to spell out in Japanese “Yorisou 1.17.” Event organizers said yorisou, or to stand ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled much of the Japanese city of Kobe. The 7.2-magnitude quake on January 17 ...