Whirlpools occur when fast-moving and slow-moving tides collide. The Naruto Strait is an ideal location for this phenomenon, ...

People in Japan commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which claimed over 6,400 lives.

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude-7.3 earthquake that ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that ...

AKASHI, Hyogo Prefecture--A local planetarium damaged ... The planetarium, the oldest in Japan, stands on the meridian of 135 degrees east longitude, which establishes Japan Standard Time.

A now 88-year-old man who narrowly survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated this west Japan city still ...

KOBE: Thousands of people marked on Friday (Jan 17) the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives ...

January 2025, 600 organizers and representatives from the countries participating in Expo 2025 Osaka gathered at the Himeji ...

Hyogo Prefecture is also calling on the central government to pick Kansai as the base of a new disaster relief agency ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako flew from Haneda Airport on the morning of January 16 to attend the Memorial ...