Twenty-five years have passed since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995.
This story takes place 25 years ago at 5:46am on January 17th, 1995. I was working for a company and one of our Japanese customers called me at about 1:00pm. He told me that “There was a big earthquake in Kansai-area. You better get in contact with your parents!”. After getting off of the phone immediately, I called my parents. My mother took the phone and told me, “It was a big earthquake, I can ...