Thirty years ago today, an event that can’t be forgotten and shouldn’t be forgotten occurred in Kobe and its vicinity. Ten years ago, I posted both English and Japanese entries of what I had experienced, witnessed, and thought at that time; you can read them below:
Tag: Nishinomiya
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Twenty Years from the Earthquake
Today in 1995, a big earthquake suddenly hit Kobe and the Hanshin-Awaji area, killing more than 6,000 people and destroying millions of households and buildings in that area. At that time, I lived in my parents’ house in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, a city in the eastern vicinity of Kobe. This entry is the record of what I experienced there when that disaster happened twenty years ago.
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