Early morning on January 17th, 1995, we had grate quake calld "Hanshin-Awaji-Daishinsai" in western Japan KOBE city. When the quake occur, my parents lived in Kobe, and my wife and myself were located in Nara city, where is the oldest Japanese capital, about 70km east of Kobe.
Fortunately, there were no casualities on my fimilies, but neighborhood arround the house was especialy suffered a great damage. My old, and beautiful wooden house, which was built in 1920, was also destroyed completely.

Picture bellow was taken on January 22nd, 1995. Click here to compare the house before and after the quake.

and some pictures,
roof destroied, furnitures destroied, storehouse remained fortunatly(left side), level the ground.

From 3 years after the quake, I have reconstruct NEW HOUSE(sorry in Japanese).

LINK to related sight:
(All pages are seemd to be in Japanses)

Nagata-Ku, Higashinada-Ku(1), Higashinada-Ku(2), Higashinada-Ku(3), Tarumi-Ku Akashi-city,

Report from Konan University, more links..

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