It was the first time on record that four cities in the prefecture, including Kobe, along with Awajishima island, had observed a magnitude-7 quake. Three people remain unaccounted for and 43,792 ...

A Kobe municipal employee, born three weeks before the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, was dispatched as a support worker for ...

KOBE--A record seven candidates are running ... Shimizu told his supporters that he was running to mend the divided politics of the prefecture, with a focus on boosting the economy and tourism ...