“It has gone well beyond the initial plan developed 20 years ago,” notes Kobe mayor, Kizō Hisamoto. Port Island now hosts one of the largest concentrations of medical research facilities in ...

Situated on Kobe’s Port Island, in the heart of the city’s biomedical innovation cluster, the seven-floor facility includes a cell-processing centre, a research institute and a 30-bed ward ...

Kobe Port Tower opened in 1963, attracting around 910,000 visitors the following year. But visitor numbers plummeted to around 300,000 annually in recent years.

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