Photographs of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Top page of NDL Great East Japan Earthquake Archive (HINAGIKU)

January 17th, 2020

It has been nearly 25 years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on January 17th, 1995. HINAGIKU collaborates with the Kobe University Library Digital Archive Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster Materials Collection. You can search materials of that archive via HINAGIKU. In commemoration of this tragic natural disaster, five photographs from the 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, 2020. 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 5,200 digitalized items of about 60,000 collections are opened to the public (as of December 15th, 2019), 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, 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' of material list (in Japanese)
You can see the list of materials with each type of category, and also check only newly arrived materials.