Today, January 17
It has been 17 years since the day that 6,434 people lost their lives in the Hanshin Awaji Earthquake in Kobe.
Today at 5:46 in the morning at Ishinomaki’s Nakase Ishinomori Manga-kan, the 1.17 Hanshin Awaji Earthquake Memorial Service took place. About one hundred people from Ishinomaki and relief support groups in the area attended the service. Candles were lit as a requiem for the souls of those lost 17 years ago.