KOBE, Japan (Kyodo) -- The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that killed over 6,400 people, with many hoping to keep ...

On January 17, 1995, an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 devastated large parts of central Japan and caused the deaths of 6,434 people. In Kobe, residents observed a moment of silence at 5.46am – the ...

The 7.2-magnitude quake on January 17, 1995, sparked a major review of quake preparedness in the island nation that suffers about one fifth of the world's most powerful tremors. Mourners observed ...

In 1995, a powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing about 5,500 people. In 1996, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was sentenced to life in prison and 16 others were also ...

KOBE, Japan, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- "The Nanjing Massacre is an eternal scar for the Chinese people. We overseas Chinese hope our Japanese friends and people around the world can really know about ...

Even now, in 2025, 30 years after the quake, there are still pieces of land which are obviously vacant in Nagata I came to live in Japan in 1994. Not coming from an earthquake-prone country, the Kobe ...