An NHK survey found that more than 60 percent of the survivors of the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake feel that memories ...

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

Friday will mark 30 years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck western Japan. Local governments in the region, including Kobe City, are still under a heavy financial burden from the quake ...

Etsuko Sato, a resident of the Hyogo Prefecture city of Kakogawa, receives an email on Jan. 17 every year -- the anniversary ...

A local planetarium damaged in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will observe its 30th anniversary on Jan. 17 by stopping its ...

Tomiko Itooka, who lived in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in central Japan, died from natural causes on Dec. 29 ...

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

Public sentiment toward the SDF was markedly colder during the Great Hanshin Earthquake, service personnel recall.

Social media has become informational infrastructure used by many people today. But at the same time, inaccurate information ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest living person, has died. She was 116. According to Guinness World ...

She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on Dec. 29 at a care home in ...

The oldest person in the world has died at 116 years old. ABC News reports that Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman was named the ...