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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

By comparison, the quake that hit Kobe, Japan, and other parts of central Honshu in January 1995, killing roughly 6,500 people and causing an estimated $150 billion in economic losses, reduced ...

Twenty years ago today, on the morning of Jan. 17 1995, a powerful earthquake hit the Japanese city of Kobe, reducing much of the city and its surrounding regions to rubble. More than 6,400 people ...

KOBE -- This city on Monday morning marked the 10th anniversary of the January 1995 earthquake that resulted in the loss of 6,433 lives, with ceremonies paying tribute to reconstruction efforts ...

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 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, ...