A memorial event for thousands of victims of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake has started in Kobe City, western Japan, on ...

Friday will mark 30 years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck western Japan. Local governments in the region, including Kobe City, are still under a heavy financial burden from the quake ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako flew from Haneda Airport on the morning of January 16 to attend the Memorial ...

On Jan. 17, 1995, as the Great Hanshin Earthquake ravaged Kobe, a baby named Mitsuaki Gatayama entered the world. Mitsuaki ...

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

Ichiro Suzuki, who had a total of 4,367 hits between Japan and the United States, was announced as one of the newest members ...

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

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

A local planetarium damaged in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will observe its 30th anniversary on Jan. 17 by stopping its ...

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