killing 61 people and causing widespread damage. In 1995, a powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing about 5,500 people. In 1996, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was ...

On Jan. 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe and surrounding areas ... local police departments had also suffered serious damage. Some officers got trapped under the wreckage ...

KOBE--People gathered at Kobe East Park in the city’s Chuo Ward early on Jan. 17 to pray for the repose of the 6,434 victims killed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake 28 years ago. Visitors ...

The total damage from the disaster ... In the aftermath of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, approximately 1.4 million volunteers ...

To overcome the difficulties in identifying purely exogenous shocks to firms' bank financing, we utilize the natural experiment provided by the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake in 1995 ...

A Kobe University ... is a gap where no major earthquake has occurred in over a century, and the risk of one occurring in the near future is high and the expected damage is large.