Japan Marks 30 Years since Kobe Quake

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...

Japan Marks 30 Years since Kobe Quake
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...