THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 17, 2025 at 15:59 JST
Members of the Takeba family gather on Jan. 17 in front of a monument set up in Higashi Yuenchi park to remember 14-month-old Hitomi and her grandmother who died in the Great Hanshin Earthquake 30 years ago. (Shinnosuke Ito)
More than 1,000 memorial events were held Jan. 17 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that claimed around 6,400 lives and reduced much of the port city of Kobe to ruins. [Read More]
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