Initially, the focus was on issues related to the reconstruction and urban planning from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and disaster and fire prevention measures, but the themes gradually ...

What was it like at the time of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake? Kotani ... and so we told the fire department that we would accept any number of injured or sick people. The first patient ...

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 aftermath of the devastating Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, collapsed buildings blocked rescue efforts and disrupted supply transport. Three decades later, the need for earthquake ...

Hyogo Prefecture marked the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on Friday with memories of what happened, a desire to pass on the lessons learned to future generations and calls ...

Files or Japan Herald and Times of Dec. 1 have been received. Both papers give accounts of a great fire which occurred at Yokohama on the 20th of November, by which two-thirds of the native town ...