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Topic: Kobe, Japan

	Kobe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kobe is the capital of Hyogo Prefecture and is one of Japan's major ports along with the ports of Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Hakata, and Tokyo.
		It is in the Kansai region of Japan, in Hyogo Prefecture to the south-west of Osaka.
		Kobe was briefly the capital of Japan in 1180 A.D. at the end of the Heian period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kobe,_Hyogo (748 words)

	ABC News: Japan Marks 10 Years Since Kobe Earthquake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kobe will be in the spotlight again on Tuesday, when it hosts a United Nations conference on disaster reduction, an event that has been retooled after the Asian disaster to focus on the creation of a tsunami-warning system in southern Asia.
		Japan had long believed the Kobe area, and the rest of southwestern Japan, was largely immune to the earthquakes that regularly rattle Tokyo and other northeastern cities.
		The destruction in Kobe, which was followed two months later by a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway by religious fanatics, quickly took on a larger significance in Japan as a symbol of the country's economic and social decline in the 1990s.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=417035 (795 words)

	"The Jews of Japan" by Daniel Ari Kapner and Stephen Levine
		Japan's Jewish population (excluding American armed forces personnel and diplomatic staff) is probably about 600, mostly in Tokyo, although the number who are active in synagogue or community affairs is considerably less.
		Japan's Jewish population seems destined never to be very large, however, and there remains, in Japan as elsewhere, the reality of intermarriage.
		In Kobe, for instance, a Japanese woman became an important member of the small community after her interest in Judaism (sparked by friendships with Kobe Jews) led to a program of study in the United States and participation in a formal conversion program.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/jl425.htm (4074 words)

	Stress transferred by the 1995 M=6.9 Kobe, Japan, shock: Effect on aftershocks and future earthquake probabilities
		The Kobe earthquake struck at the edge of the densely populated Osaka-Kyoto corridor in southwest Japan.
		The Kobe area is dominated by the young Philippine Sea plate subducting beneath the Eurasian plate at 40 mm/yr, generating great subduction earthquakes with repeat times of ~100 years (Figure 1a).
		Focal mechanisms of thrust events in the Kobe area are consistent with an average dip of 35°, although it is not possible to distinguish between nodal and fault planes, leaving a large uncertainty.
	quake.wr.usgs.gov /research/deformation/modeling/papers/kobe.html (10046 words)

	Kobe, Hyogo
		Kobe is the capital of Hyogo prefecture and is one of Japan's major portss.
		Wedged in between the coast and the mountains, the city of Kobe is long and narrow.
		Mt Rokko is also the site of Japan's first golf course, established by the Englishmanman Arthur Gloom in 1903.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/k/ko/kobe__hyogo.html (544 words)

	Kobe Airport -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When it is completed, Kobe Airport will be connected to (Click link for more info and facts about Sannomiya Station) Sannomiya Station in central Kobe by an extension of the existing (Click link for more info and facts about Port Island) Port Island light rail system.
		The project has been extremely controversial, since the estimated pricetag is over 1 trillion yen (US $8.7 billion), and the Kobe municipality is already the worst-indebted in the country with outstanding debts of over ¥3 trillion.
		Despite the controversy, many say that the Kobe Airport may actually be beneficial to the Kansai region.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ko/kobe_airport.htm (301 words)

	Earthquake Effects in Kobe, Japan
		Kobe is also somewhat off the Median Tectonic Line, a zone of strike-slip faults.
		Most of the damage done by earthquakes is due to their secondary effects, those not directly caused by fault movement, but resulting instead from the propagation of seismic waves away from the fault rupture.
		The Kobe port, having been constructed on two artificial islands made of relatively loose fill, and always water saturated, suffered widespread liquefaction and settlement, and was incapacitated for two months.
	www.seismo.unr.edu /ftp/pub/louie/class/100/effects-kobe.html (2350 words)

	Kobe Earthquake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Seismologists have a growing conviction that a phenomena wherein the amplitude of the wave is magnified at the border between soft and hard ground increased the damage.
		Kobe, which suffered much of the damage, is built on a complex formation of various hardnesses of ground, ranging from the solid Rokko Mountain to the soft reclaimed land of Port Island.
		Kobe Harbor deals the largest cargoes in Japan and has around 150 public quays, only 33 of them have survived the quake.
	vathena.arc.nasa.gov /curric/land/kobe.html (1238 words)

	Kobe Earthquake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This island is near the city of Kobe, which is a port city.
		The earthquake caused 5100 deaths, mainly in Kobe.
		The cities of Kobe and Osaka are connected by an elevated highway.
	www.vibrationdata.com /earthquakes/kobe.htm (437 words)

	The Jews of Kobe
		Located near the entrance to Japan's Inland Sea and at the cross-roads of East and West Japan, Kobe has been a key anchorage since the 8th century and a port of significance since the late 1200's.
		Japan's policy toward the Jews was much different than that of their allies.
		Jews in Kobe itself numbered about fifty families when they established the Kobe Jewish Community in July 1940, and with the help of the Joint Distribution Committee in New York City, assisted the refugees to find housing, get visas, and depart for their ultimate destinations.
	xenon.stanford.edu /%7Etamar/Kobe/Kobe.html (2938 words)

	CSA KOBE, JAPAN
		Kobe is Japan's 6th largest city, and was one of the first ports to open to Western Ships.
		Courses are conducted at the YMCA in Kobe.
		Kobe, rich in both culture and natural beauty, is an ideal choice for the study of Japanese.
	www.studyabroad.com /csa/csa_japan.html (1489 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kobe, Japan (Japanese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		A cultural center, Kobe has several colleges and universities and many temples and shrines.
		Since 1878 the city has included Hyogo (formerly Hiogo), an ancient port that was prominent during the Ashikaga period (14th–16th cent.) and regained importance after it was reopened to foreign trade in 1868.
		Kobe was heavily bombed during World War II but was rebuilt and enlarged, with much commercial building taking place on landfill in Osaka Bay.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kobe.html (268 words)

	Japanese Restaurants in the UK
		Beef from cattle raised in the rugged Kobe area of Japan is widely acknowledged as the finest in the world.
		Kobe beef has a big reputation in the culinary world and there are many theories put forward, some true and some not, to explain the extraordinary tenderness and flavour of the meat.
		It is said, for example that the Kobe farmers feed their cattle beer, give them regular massages and rub their coats with sake.
	www.kobebeef.co.uk (160 words)

	PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Autumn 1996) - Aftermath of the Kobe Earthquake
		On Jan. 17, 1995, the Hanshin/Awaji Earthquake struck the densely populated Kobe, Japan, area with a Richter magnitude 7.2.
		The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reported that the depth of the hypocenter was 14 kilometers, which is considered to be a relatively shallow earthquake.
		The standard retrofitting procedure for reinforced concrete columns in Japan is to increase the cross section of columns by the addition of reinforced concrete, which is then surrounded by steel jackets either at locations of premature termination of main reinforcement or over the column's full height.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/fall96/p96au17.htm (2996 words)

	Kobe Travel Guide
		Kobe is the capital of Hyogo Prefecture and one of Japan's ten largest cities.
		Its port was one of the first Japanese ports to be opened to foreign trade in the late Edo Period, and the city remains one of Japan's more cosmopolitan cities.
		In January 1995, Kobe was hit by the Great Hanshin Earthquake, which destroyed tens of thousands of buildings and killed over 5000 people.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2159.html (142 words)

	The Great Hanshin Earthquake Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fig.2.2 shows the JMA earthquake intensities throughout Japan which were announced on January 17.
		Kobe city is located in the 'Kinki Triangle', which is surrounded by major active faults.
		The port of Kobe, which is the second largest port of Japan, was shut down.
	geoinfo.usc.edu /gees/Reports/Report3/japan/KOBE.HTML (3787 words)

	AGU Web Site: Kobe Earthquake: An Urban Disaster
		Kobe is located on a narrow strip of land between Osaka Bay to the southeast and the Rokko mountains to the northwest.
		The elevated Hanshin Expressway, which is the main vehicular traffic artery through Kobe, was closed by collapses at three locations, one of which included a 630-m section of the expressway (Figure 3).
		Currently available evidence does not suggest any difference between the source characteristics of the Kobe earthquake and those of crustal earthquakes that occur in California, and our preliminary evaluation of the ground motions from the Kobe earthquake indicate that they were comparable to those we would expect from a California earthquake of the same magnitude.
	www.agu.org /sci_soc/kobe.html (1881 words)

	Kobe's Hanshin Earthquake - Eyewitness Account (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Damage to the port of Kobe (World's second largest container port and Japan's largest) is estimated at between 9.5 and 10 Billion dollars.
		Kobe was quite heavily bombed during the war, and much of the city dates from the post-war period.
		Kobe was a beautiful city, a nice mix of ancient and modern.
	www.paulzilla.org /japanese/quakkurt.htm (2192 words)

	The January 17, 1995 Hyogo Ken Nanbu (Kobe) Earthquake
		The rupture of this strike-slip earthquake directly into downtown Kobe, as inferred from the aftershock distribution and the waveform modeling of teleseismic and strong motion seismograms, appears to have contributed to the high level of destruction that occurred.
		In summary, the 1995 Kobe earthquake occurred on a mapped system of active faults, and had a mechanism that is compatible with the tectonics of western Japan as inferred from similar earthquakes that occurred during the past century.
		Collapse of a quay in the Port of Kobe.
	www.ce.berkeley.edu /Programs/Geoengineering/research/Kobe/Somerville/qnews.html (1861 words)

	KOBE STEEL, LTD. KOBELCO
		Kobe Steel has ceased the chromate treatment of electrogalvanized steel sheet.
		Kobe Steel estimates that its crankshafts account for about 40% of the world market in terms of units sold.
		The Environmental Sustainability Report 2005 presents the Kobe Steel Group's activities and achievements in environmental protection and creation in fiscal 2004 (April 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005).
	www.kobelco.co.jp /english (234 words)

	Kobe Japan Earthquake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On January 17, 1995, the Hyogoken-Nanbu (Kobe) earthquake struck the Hyogo prefecture of south-central Japan, resulting in over 5,400 deaths and injuries in the tens of thousands.
		The setting of Kobe, with large strike-slip faults near a bay and engineered buildings constructed on sedimentary deposits, is not unlike that of the San Francisco Bay Area.
		The investigation of the Kobe earthquake is valuable in the characterization of near source ground motion in California and in the design of earthquake resistant structures worldwide.
	nisee.berkeley.edu /kobe/kobe.html (159 words)

	In midst of tsunami disaster, Japan to pause for Kobe earthquake victims
		Japan and many around the world will also look back at the quake on Monday, when Kobe marks the 10th anniversary of a tragedy that killed more than 6,400 people, exposed the fragility of the country's cities and triggered a vast overhaul of its disaster response system.
		The quake has taken on a wider historical significance in Japan, becoming a dramatic emblem for the financial and social decline of the post-bubble economy of the 1990s.
		Despite the memories of disaster, many in Kobe still exhibit the perseverance and energy that so impressed the world after the quake and fueled the city's resurgence.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/01/14/international0157EST0409.DTL (799 words)

	Kobe Beef FAQ
		Kobe Beef is a legendary delicacy of Japan, a type of beef that is so well marbled that it goes right off the charts for Prime grading in any other country.
		I have been exhaustively researching the topic of Kobe Beef in the hopes of purchasing one of those legendary cattle for about a year, since I had heard that they were ranched successfully in the United States for sale to a hungry Japanese market.
		So they have the cattle raised to their exactingly specified Kobe standards, and they actually fabricate the carcasses in Kobe, making them legally "Kobe Beef" even though the cattle were actually born, bred and fed somewhere else.
	members.tripod.com /%7EBayGourmet/wagyu.html (1449 words)

	Kobe H3 Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		of Kobe, Japan are the second oldest Hash in the country, and Kansai's Mother Hash.
		All material on these pages, whether ripped off or not, is the copyright of Kobe Hash House Harriers and Big O Productions.
		This is the fourth edition of the Kobe H3 home page, published on 3rd April 2003.
	www.kobehash.com (117 words)

	JapanMovers.com (Guide to Osaka/Kobe)
		Kobe offers an incredible view, drawing comparisions to San Francisco and is well-noted for having the best drinking water in Japan.
		Kobe - Lovely port city of near 1.5 million situated in Hyogo Prefecture between Osaka and Okayama.
		Kobe International Baptist Church (KIBC) - An international Bible-believing church serving the international community in Kobe for 20 years.
	www.japanmovers.com /osaka_kobe_guide.html (867 words)

	Quake: Kobe Earthquake - Jan 17, 1995
		Note that the Hanshin-Awaji ground motion data are preliminary, the contours are very general and represent a sparse dataset, and the background geology is derived from a generalized map of Japan prepared at the country scale of 1:1,000,000.
		The prominent dumbbell-shaped high in the acceleration contours is centered over the Bay-margin fringe of Holocene sediment in the Kobe City area adjacent to the northeastern end of the source fault.
		In its representation in the poster-sized image, the Kobe region of the geologic map is enlarged about twofold (to a scale of 1:425,000), a process that adds no detail but simply makes room for the other data that are included.
	quake.wr.usgs.gov /recent/reports/kobe (773 words)

	Savage Earth: Restless Planet
		And ground motions in regions of soft sediment are drastically amplified relative to surrounding areas, so that much greater earthquake damage results, such as that in the Marina District of San Francisco following the 1906 and Loma Prieta (1989) earthquakes.
		The port zone of Kobe, Japan, was also damaged severely by liquefaction during the 1995 earthquake.
		Though some scientists dream of discovering warning signals that would allow the evacuation of a city just before a large earthquake, the focus of earthquake preparation today is on making sure that buildings and other structures are engineered to withstand the maximum likely shaking without collapsing completely.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/index.html (1193 words)

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