Residents of Kobe, Japan, have been sending out \"Kobe 2001 -- Thanks and Welcome\" postcards to invite people from around the world to this reborn city, nearly five years after it was seriously ...

The Earthquake Memorial Park located to the northeast of the Be Kobe Monument. The Meriken waterfront was built in 1868. During the 1995 disaster, the land sank, causing flooding.

Today is the 15th anniversary of the 6.8 Kobe earthquake in Japan, which killed over 6,000 people. The quake caused large-scale damage to Kobe, which is one of Seattle's sister cities.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have shown that the 1995 Kobe (Hyogo-ken Nanbu) earthquake, which struck southern Hyogo Prefecture, may have been triggered by deep underground flooding ...

The Japanese earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis are expected to inflict more human and physical damage than the 1995 Kobe earthquake, economists at Barclay s Capital said.

The people in and around Kobe, Japan, are commemorating the 10th anniversary of a major earthquake, which left almost 6,500 people dead. Ten years to the minute, at 5:46 a.m., Kobe paused to ...

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Japan today marked the 21st anniversary of a devastating earthquake in the western city of Kobe that killed more than 6,400 people, as bereaved families looked to keep memories of the victims alive.

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will attend a memorial ceremony on Jan. 17 to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in western Japan, the Imperial Household Agency ...

When the shaking started at 5:46 a.m., Yasuhisa Itakura, an architect at a big Japanese construction company in Kobe, was sitting at his desk finishing a report he had toiled over all night. His ...

At Kobe's Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial/Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution, a museum that opened in 2002, the purpose is to remember what happened that day on Jan. 17, 1995.

At Phoenix Plaza (不死鳥會館), a museum near Kobe train station, countless photographs show the damage inflicted by the earthquake. The plaza, housing a long-term exhibition about the Kobe earthquake, ...