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Kobe, the most important port of
Japan received sad celebrity on 17 January 1995 by the heavy Hyogo Ken Nanbu
earthquake, when more than 5000 people died. Today the city is almost completely
rebuilt. Further information about the event is here:
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/effects-kobe.html
Only the cracks in the houses tell the history, otherwise Kobe is a bustling
city with entertainment parks - and shadows as well: homeless people in front of
luxury hotels - a new sight in recessive Japan.
In front of the Meriken Park
Oriental Hotel.
Everywhere in Japan: Railroad fans
directly behind the engineer - "Railroad simulators" are the favourite
computer programs of the middle generation in Japan, I was told: -). This is the
best training ground, for sure!
The Han-Shin Expressway, rebuilt
with strong reinforcements, cuts through the city center. Just behind behind the
city, jungle starts - mountain slopes are not cultivated in Japan. No Japanese
could give me a clear explanation for this: "It is simply like that, was
never different". Or: "there is too much fog". Or: "the houses would slip
downhill with earthquakes".
At the laser Scanning Microscope
System in Tokushima: competent bio-scientists!
Port at port from Kobe to Osaka. A
hostile world? Not, if you look at the life expectancy here: 81 years for women
and 74 years for men!
Disclaimer
© Dr. Martin Hoppe 2001-2002
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