By HIROKI KOIKE/ Staff Writer
January 14, 2020 at 18:40 JST
The sightseeing bus that narrowly escaped plunging off the collapsed Hanshin Expressway in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
NISHINOMIYA, Hyogo Prefecture--Coach driver Yoshio Fukumoto was weary on the final stretch of a 500-kilometer journey when he experienced a blinding flash of white light and the Hanshin Expressway started shaking intensely and buckling. It was 5:46 a.m. [Read More]
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