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  • The term Hanshin is used by Japanese to refer to the metropolis encompassing the Osaka and Kobe area, taking its name from different pronunciations of the second Chinese character in Osaka and the first character in Kobe.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Much of the local squid, salmon, and a Pacific saury the locals call Sanma was processed in Kamaishi's port and shipped by truck to supermarkets through Japan, by a Kobe-based company called Hanshin Teion.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • I translated Moto Hagio's short story "Hanshin" for that and also conducted a long interview with Hagio, as well as writing an article on the so-called Magnificent Forty-Niners.

    Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News 2010

  • I translated Moto Hagio's short story "Hanshin" for that and also conducted a long interview with Hagio, as well as writing an article on the so-called Magnificent Forty-Niners.

    Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News 2010

  • A, A ', They Were Eleven, and the short story "Hanshin".

    Comics212 Chris 2010

  • I translated Moto Hagio's short story "Hanshin" for that and also conducted a long interview with Hagio, as well as writing an article on the so-called Magnificent Forty-Niners.

    Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News 2010

  • It dwarfs the amount of debris—about 14.5 million tons—that had to be cleaned up after the Hanshin quake, which hit the southern port city of Kobe in 1995.

    Debris Blocks Japan Recovery Aims Gordon Fairclough 2011

  • The 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake in Japan, also called the Kobe earthquake, killed nearly 6,500 people and caused more than $100 billion in damage.

    Former US VP: Japan Crisis Might Reshape Views on Nuclear Power 2011

  • The 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake in Japan, also called the Kobe earthquake, killed nearly 6,500 people and caused more than $100 billion in damage.

    Former US VP: Japan Crisis Might Reshape Views on Nuclear Power 2011

  • And if history is a guide, the Great Hanshin earthquake that hit Kobe, Japan, in January 1995 provides reassurance, says Richard Gilhooly , U.S. director of interest-rate strategy at TD Securities.

    Japan Shouldn't Destabilize U.S. Treasurys David Reilly 2011

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