An 8-meter-tall “Rosone” installation will be set up for the first time at Port of Kobe Earthquake Memorial Park inside Meriken Park. Eight locations will be lit up along a route connecting JR ...

A memorial event for thousands of victims of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake has started in Kobe City, western Japan, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the natural disaster. Over 6,400 ...

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.

In 1995, a massive earthquake levelled the port city of Kobe. Barely three years later, municipal officials hatched a plan to reinvent the local economy. Their idea: transform an artificial island ...

KOBE (Kyodo) -- The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude-7.3 earthquake that ... placed at Kobe East Park to form the date "1.17 ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake ... where Kobe is located. Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko attended a memorial ceremony in the ...

KOBE: Thousands of people marked on Friday (Jan 17) the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed ... deadliest since World War II - struck the port city. "Whenever I see someone who looks ...

Mourners observed a moment of silence before dawn at 5:46 am, the exact time that the quake -- Japan's second deadliest since World War II -- struck the port city. People light candles ...