killing 61 people and causing widespread damage. In 1995, a powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing about 5,500 people. In 1996, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was ...

A professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and director of the Emergency and Critical Care Center at Kobe University Hospital, KOTANI ...

Heavy damage to the busy harbour area dealt a severe blow to Kobe's economy, sparking a population exodus over the following months and years. Japan experiences more than 1,000 earthquakes every year.

Thirty years have passed since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake devastated Kobe and wide areas around ... which indicates the extent of housing damage, as a criterion for various types of ...

Heavy damage to the busy harbour area dealt a severe blow to Kobe's economy ... Brooks / AFP Japan experiences more than 1,000 earthquakes every year. The vast majority are harmless but occasional ...

On Jan. 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe and surrounding areas ... local police departments had also suffered serious damage. Some officers got trapped under the wreckage ...

killing 61 people and causing widespread damage. 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 ...

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 ...

(Mainichi) Japan on Jan. 17 marked 30 years since the Great Hanshin Earthquake, a devastating disaster that struck Kobe and other parts ... The total damage from the disaster was estimated at ...

Store owners in Kobe's Nagata Ward, battered by a powerful earthquake 30 years ago, are welcoming students on school trips from all over Japan to help revitalize the area. Kiyoto Morisaki ...