Oooh and ahh as America caps its 249th birthday with dazzling fireworks on the National Mall in D.C. See patriotic ...

Architecture can uplift the elite or house the houseless. These were the concepts explored Thursday at Aspen Ideas Festival’s ...

In a live interview from the Nixon Library, author Douglas Murray backed President Trump’s recent strikes on Iran, calling them a strong message against Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

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I first visited Kobe in 1985, shortly after arriving in Japan to begin my research in Japanese architecture. The Ministry of Education, which funded the program I was on, had wisely put its grantees ...

Top Things To Do In Kobe – The Ultimate Kobe Travel Guide Cruise Around Kobe At Sunset One of the highlights of my trip to Kobe was the Luminous 2 sunset cruise. Setting off late afternoon, we were ...

Three decades ago, in January 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake leveled much of Kobe and killed more than 6,000 people. Has Japan been successful in building on the lessons of that and ...

Kobe – The massive earthquake that hit Kobe and other western Japan areas in 1995 has led to expectations that convenience stores will serve as a lifeline in times of disaster. "The feeling of ...

On 17 January 1995, an earthquake devastated the port city of Kobe, in west Japan. More than 6,000 people died and around 300,000 people were left homeless.

An earthquake of a comparable scale, particularly one that triggers a tsunami, is going to cause considerably more damage and loss of life compared with the 1995 Kobe quake, seismologists warn.

Kobe (Japan) (AFP) – Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled much of the Japanese city of Kobe.