Kiyoto Morisaki, 72, president of Kinki Taxi, who proposed the program to show the current state of Nagata Ward, said he ...

Etsuko Sato, a resident of the Hyogo Prefecture city of Kakogawa, receives an email on Jan. 17 every year -- the anniversary ...

JAPAN issued a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the country on Monday. The quake was at a depth of 23 ...

which makes it one of the most earthquake-prone areas in the world,” said Shoichi Yoshioka, a professor at Japan’s Kobe ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency said the earthquake epicenter was at sea. There were no reports of serious damage.

A picture book has been created based on the true story of parents and their child born on January 17, 1995, when a major ...

KOBE--Sun Television Co., a TV station based ... He was there at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 and called from a studio for viewers to evacuate from the tsunami.

The Great Hanshin Earthquake, which struck the Kobe area early on Jan. 17, 1995, and eventually claimed 6,434 lives, prompted Japan to review its disaster preparedness, responses, and recovery and ...

MR. K. SUDA, of the Imperial Marine Observatory at Kobe, has recently issued a detailed and interesting report on the great Japanese earthquake.1 It is based on an examination of all the ...

Japan gave the word tsunami - meaning harbour ... making them safer. In the wake of the Kobe earthquake, new regulations for quake-proofing buildings came into force, and some local governments ...

Earthquake early warning systems are rarely accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. A group of scientists is ...

zoo director Kako Yujiro said the giant panda had given courage to Kobe's residents after the earthquake. "She was like the sun to us, making people smile. I am just grateful for her," he said.