which makes it one of the most earthquake-prone areas in the world,” said Shoichi Yoshioka, a professor at Japan’s Kobe ...

KOBE--Sun Television Co., a TV station based ... He was there at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 and called from a studio for viewers to evacuate from the tsunami.

KOBE--Residents started ... the park by 7 a.m. The earthquake struck at 5:46 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1995, the first to occur directly beneath a large city in post-war Japan. The epicenter of the ...

constructed in the 17th century near Kyoto — it famously emerged intact from the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake, also known as the Kobe quake, while many nearby buildings collapsed. Japan’s ...

A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel, in what plant officials said was a step ...

A robot tasked with searching the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has retrieved a sample of melted nuclear fuel.

zoo director Kako Yujiro said the giant panda had given courage to Kobe's residents after the earthquake. "She was like the sun to us, making people smile. I am just grateful for her," he said.

After the Quake,’ a film adaptation of a Murakami Haruki story collection, has been picked up by Bitters End for ...

“Kobe began its project from almost nothing after the earthquake,” Hisamoto explains ... Most crucial was a decision in 2000 by RIKEN, Japan’s leading basic research institute, to establish ...

the catastrophe that overwhelmed Japan’s northeast coast is exceptional for its size and scope. Compared with Kobe, the economic damage this time around is much greater: 3 to 5 percent of GDP, nearly ...

People taking refuge to Japan's countryside climb and clinch to one of few trains leaving the capital in 1923. (AP Photo) See more archival images of the Kanto Earthquake. ‘I’ve got to push on.