Photographs of Kobe University Library Digital Archive Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster Materials Collection: Top page of NDL Great East Japan Earthquake Archive (HINAGIKU)

January 17th, 2018

It has been nearly 23 years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on January 17th, 1995. In commemoration of this tragic natural disaster, five photographs from Kobe University Library Digital Archive Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster Materials Collection will be exhibited on the top page of HINAGIKU from January 17th to January 31st, 2018. By clicking each photograph, you can move to the page of the Collection, where these photographs are displayed in detail.

Reference: Kobe University Library Digital Archive Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster Materials Collection

This Collection is an archive which collects such items as records of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. About 5,150 digitalized items of about 57,000 collections are opened to the public (as of November 26th, 2017), and you can search materials in some ways as follows.

• Digital Gallery
  Photographs or Audio Materials and others are viewable.
  On the page of fixed-point photographs (in Japanese), you can see the status of restoration at the same place after the earthquake disaster.
• Advanced Search screen
  You can search the materials by entering some keywords or conditions.
• All kinds' material list (in Japanese)
  You can see the list of materials with each type of category, and also check only newly arrived materials.