Thirty years have passed since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake devastated Kobe and wide areas around the port city. The disaster claimed 6,434 lives and destroyed or partially destroyed 460,000 ...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake that claimed the lives of 6,434 people. The magnitude 7.3 quake hit Kobe City in western Japan and surrounding areas at 5:46 ...

In the spring of 1995, not long after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of Jan. 17 that year, I wrote a story for The Asahi Shimbun. It was about people who had survived the catastrophe and suffered ...

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 prompted the government to establish a nationwide network to monitor seismic ...

In a remarkable celebration of journalistic integrity, the 32nd Sakata Journalism Award ceremony took place on the 28th in Osaka's Kita Ward, shining a spotlight on exceptional reporting from the ...

In searching for ways to that end, it is essential to obtain a grasp of the impact of such a disaster on corporate activities. The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995 is important from this ...

The Kansai area will never experience a major earthquake.” That was how many people felt before the Great Hanshin-Awaji ...

A 1995 earthquake caused widescale destruction across Japan's Kansai region, resulting in the creation of a small broadcast FM station. We examine the role of such local broadcast systems.

Japan on Jan. 17 marked 30 years since the Great Hanshin Earthquake, a devastating disaster that struck Kobe and other parts of southern Hyogo Prefecture, registering the maximum 7 on the Japanese ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake, followed by the tsunami and the nuclear accident, turned out to be an unprecedented catastrophe. In comparison with the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that struck ...

When I felt the ground shaking during the 1989 Loma Prieta quake in California and a few years later, during the 1996 Great Hanshin earthquake in Japan I lost all confidence in the solidity of the ...