I had arrived in Japan only hours earlier. Originally I had planned to stay with a local couple who I met in Australia in Nada, Kobe. But 1 month before I left ... The main lesson is that if you live ...

KOBE -- A now 88-year-old man who narrowly survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated this west Japan city still trades stocks daily, earning him the nickname "Japan's Warren ...

As the Japanese city of Kobe marked the 30th anniversary of a deadly earthquake on Friday, a series of recent tremors off the country’s central region has triggered fears that another major ...

Sunflowers growing in an empty plot of land in the city of Kobe, where a home once stood before ... For Itsuka Kikuchi, the now 45-year-old who lived in the quake-hit home at the time, the ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled much of the Japanese city of Kobe. The 7.2-magnitude quake on January 17 ...