The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas mark the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that killed over 6,400 people, with many hoping to keep alive the memories as the devastating ...

The Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred on Jan. 17, 1995. That year came to be called “Borantia Gannen” (literally, “first year ...

Adachi was from Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, and joined the former Ministry of Construction in 1979. After serving as technical director at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and ...

More than 100 runners, wishing to be this year's "lucky men," have competed in an early morning race at a shrine in western Japan. Nishinomiya ... from Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture.

The Yomiuri Shimbun A person touches inscriptions on a memorial to the victims of the disaster in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture ... in the small hours of Friday at Kobe East Park in the city’s Chuo ...

Students at a junior high school in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, wrote messages to the victims of the Great Hanshin Earthquake on candles that will be lit at a memorial service starting Thursday evening ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude-7.3 earthquake that ...

Whirlpools occur when fast-moving and slow-moving tides collide. The Naruto Strait is an ideal location for this phenomenon, ...

More than 1,000 memorial events were held Jan. 17 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that claimed ...

Takeuchi was found unconscious at his home in the Hyogo city of Himeji on Saturday night ... after resigning from the assembly of the western Japan prefecture on Nov. 18, the day after Saito ...