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.

KOBE--It’s been nearly 80 years since a ... The refugees took the Trans-Siberian Railway before arriving in Japan at Tsuruga Port in Fukui Prefecture, and they eventually left for the United ...

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 ... blow to Kobe's economy ...