“It has gone well beyond the initial plan developed 20 years ago,” notes Kobe mayor, Kizō Hisamoto. Port Island now hosts one of the largest concentrations of medical research facilities in ...

Situated on Kobe’s Port Island, in the heart of the city’s biomedical innovation cluster, the seven-floor facility includes a cell-processing centre, a research institute and a 30-bed ward ...

More than 1,000 memorial events were held Jan. 17 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that claimed around 6,400 lives and reduced much of the port city of Kobe to ruins.

Japanese champions Vissel Kobe romped into the knockout stages of the AFC Champions League on Tuesday, a 4-0 victory over ...

Kobe Port Tower opened in 1963, attracting around 910,000 visitors the following year. But visitor numbers plummeted to around 300,000 annually in recent years.