It may be best known to the rest of the world for its delicious beef or perhaps even for the devastation of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. But Hyogo Prefecture’s Kobe City has a long and ...

KOBE--The Sakae Jutaku complex in Nishi Ward, one of the biggest Kobe municipal housing developments, was created as a “new town” during prosperous times in this western port city. But now, many of ...

But Hyogo Prefecture’s Kobe City has a long and fascinating history of contact with the world outside Japan. Over a 1,000 years ago in the Nara and Heian periods, the area now known as Kobe was the ...