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

The Hyogo Prefectural Assembly plans to ask the ... (Japanese original by Takuhide Nakao, Kobe Bureau, and Yukina Furukawa, Osaka City News Department) ...

Kazumi Inamura, 52, a former mayor of Amagasaki city in Hyogo Prefecture, has increased the number of postings of her street speeches and other events on social media. But she has also had to deal ...

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito attends a news conference in Kobe, on Nov. 27, 2024. (Mainichi/Takashi Murata) KOBE -- Reelected Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito's campaign team said that it had commissioned a ...

KOBE -- A survey on harassment allegations against Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito has found ... from a grower when he visited the ...

The defendant in a criminal trial over an apparent attempted attack on then Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio in 2023 has ...

TAKARAZUKA, Hyogo Prefecture--A special exhibition dedicated to Buichi Terasawa is running at the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum here. The event features 100 or so handwritten manuscripts, original ...

The huge earthquake that hit Kobe and other western Japan areas in 1995 has led to expectations that convenience stores will ...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake that claimed the lives of 6,434 people. The magnitude 7.3 quake hit Kobe City in western Japan and surrounding areas at 5:46 a.m.