Fukusaki (福崎町) is a town located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Kunio Yanagita, a scholar and folklorist who has been called the ...

Whirlpools occur when fast-moving and slow-moving tides collide. The Naruto Strait is an ideal location for this phenomenon, ...

The police chief of Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan has made a rare comment about a rumor on social media that a former ...

By David McNeill Historical turning points sometimes announce themselves with a bang but often they sneak past us, almost ...

Hyogo Prefecture is also calling on the central government to pick Kansai as the base of a new disaster relief agency ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude-7.3 earthquake that ...

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

An NHK survey has shown that a majority of respondents who survived the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake have not shared ...