Retro Japan: Kobe chapel damaged in air raids, survived quake, reborn as literature museum

KOBE -- The nearly 122-year-old building of the Kobe City Museum of Literature stands on the southwestern side of the lushly ...
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Watch what happens when a house faces Kobe’s 6.9 earthquake

Japan built E-Defense, the world’s largest earthquake simulator, after the 1995 Kobe earthquake killed more than 6,000 people ...

‘Last generation’ teacher vows to pass down Kobe quake memories

It took Genki Hasegawa about 10 years before he felt ready to publicly describe his experience of losing loved ones in a ...
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Survivors commemorate major 1995 Kobe earthquake despite fading memories

KOBE - Survivors and residents on Saturday shared their grief and memories of the calamity wrought by the major earthquake that killed over 6,400 people in Kobe and the wider western Japan region in ...

Strong earthquake hits off Japan’s coast, tsunami advisory issued

A three-meter (9.8-foot) tsunami warning was issued for Japan on Monday after a strong 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency and the ...