A professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and director of the Emergency and Critical Care Center at Kobe University Hospital, KOTANI ...

"The images of the disaster are frightening." "I don't understand the lessons." These are the voices of young people living now in areas hit by the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that devastated the ...

Japan has extensive experience in rebuilding and recovering after natural disasters, such as the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake thirty years ago, the Kantō Earthquake of 1923, and the Great East ...

Over 6,400 people died in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in western Japan three decades ago. NHK World's Ide Mizuha spoke to a mother still grieving her son who died before he could realize ...

KOBE, Japan — The huge earthquake that hit Kobe and other ... is incomparably larger than at the time” of the Hanshin-Awaji quake disaster, said Katsumi Murakami, who owns and runs a Lawson ...

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that devastated Kobe and its vicinity in 1995 led to the establishment of the Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion. It served as the command center ...

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which devastated Kobe and its vicinity in 1995, led to the creation of the Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion and a nationwide observation network ...

Kobe bell with three candles in standing bamboos and flowers at the Seattle Center. Photo credit: Barbara Mizoguchi.