I had traveled to Japan to report on the 1995 earthquake in Kobe (ENR Feb.6, 1995, p. 10). Now I was reporting on the ...

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 ...

“There has been a giant earthquake ... along a stretch in Kobe’s Higashi-Nada Ward, claiming 16 lives altogether. After the quake, projects were carried out across Japan to make structures ...

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

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

A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged ...

A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a ...

A device to remove debris from a reactor at the damaged Fukushima Nuclear power plant demonstrates to pinch a stone, as revealed in Kobe, western Japan ... during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 ... data from the Meteorological Agency going back to 1923 shows: the Kobe quake in 1995; the 2004 Chuetsu earthquake that killed 46 and derailed ...

Japan’s public broadcaster NHK has won three awards at an event in Istanbul held by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). The prizes were won in three categories. The ABU Perspective Award went ...