Police in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, have issued a rare warning to social media users against posting slanderous ...
A former Hyogo Prefectural Assembly member who served on the assembly's special committee to investigate power harassment and ...
Whirlpools occur when fast-moving and slow-moving tides collide. The Naruto Strait is an ideal location for this phenomenon, ...
By David McNeill Historical turning points sometimes announce themselves with a bang but often they sneak past us, almost ...
Paper lanterns are lit at a park in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2025, the eve of the 30th anniversary ...
The police chief of Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan has made a rare comment about a rumor on social media that a former ...
A former member of the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly who took part in investigating Gov. Motohiko Saito’s workplace bullying allegations last year has died in an apparent suicide — the third ...
The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that ...
People in Japan commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which claimed over 6,400 lives.
Kobe, Jan. 20 (Jiji Press)--Motohiko Saito, governor of Hyogo Prefecture ... himself after resigning from the assembly of the western Japan prefecture on Nov. 18, the day after Saito’s ...
Japan experiences more than 1,000 earthquakes every year ... the victims on the 30th anniversary of the "Great Hanshin ...
A local planetarium damaged in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will observe its 30th anniversary on Jan. 17 by stopping its ...