Fukusaki (福崎町) is a town located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Kunio Yanagita, a scholar and folklorist who has been called the ...

By David McNeill Historical turning points sometimes announce themselves with a bang but often they sneak past us, almost ...

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

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

Hyogo Prefecture is also calling on the central government to pick Kansai as the base of a new disaster relief agency ...

The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. When you purchase through links ...

People in Japan commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which claimed over 6,400 lives. On ...

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.

Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on December 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture, central Japan ... than 227,000 people died in the December ...

A local planetarium damaged in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will observe its 30th anniversary on Jan. 17 by stopping its ...