Kobe, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)--As Friday marked the 30th anniversary of a devastating earthquake that rocked Kobe and other western Japan areas, bereaved families prayed for victims and renewed their resolve to pass on lessons from the disaster to the next generation. Memories of the Jan. 17, 1995, quake, which took the lives of 6,434 people and injured 43,792, are fading. But disasters keep o...
Kobe, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)--As Friday marked the 30th anniversary of a devastating earthquake that rocked Kobe and other western Japan areas, bereaved families prayed for victims and renewed their resolve to pass on lessons from the disaster to the next generation. Memories of the Jan. 17, 1995, quake, which took the lives of 6,434 people and injured 43,792, are fading. But disasters keep o...