About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Great Hanshin earthquake, Animation Kobe, History of the Jews in Kobe, Kobe University, Hanshin Industrial Region, Kobe beef, Canadian Academy, Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers, Kobe Chinatown, Orix BlueWave, Oriental Hotel, Shinkaichi Station, Mount Maya, Shin-Kobe Station, Port of Kobe, Home's Stadium Kobe, UCC Ueshima Coffee Co., Fukuhara-ky, Kobe Collection, Kobe Institute Of Computing, Second Shinmei Road, Mount Rokk, Kobe Ry koku Junior High School, High School, Kobe Shoin Women's University, Bombing of Kobe in World War II, Ikuta Shrine, Taisan-ji, Kobe New Transit, Kobe Port Tower, Arima Onsen, Rokk Island, Kobe Golf Club, Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium, Port Island, Nagata Shrine, Kobe Mosque, Kitano-ch, An'y -in, Suma Rikyu Park, World Memorial Hall, Kobe Luminarie, Kobe Municipal Arboretum, Motomachi, Kobe, Harborland, Sannomiya, Harukichi Yamaguchi, Kobe Kachoen, Rokk Alpine Botanical Garden, Kikuseidai, Nunobiki Herb Garden, Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe City Urban Development, Meriken Park, Kobe Maritime Museum, Kobe Shimbun, Minatogawa Shrine. Excerpt: Kobe K be-shi) is the sixth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hy go Prefecture on the southern side of the main island of Honsh, approximately 500 km (311 mi) west of Tokyo. Kobe is a prominent port city with a population of about 1.5 million. The city is located in the Kansai region of Japan and is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. Keihanshin in turn is part of the Taiheiy Belt, a megalopolis. The earliest written records regarding the region come from the Nihon Shoki, which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jing in AD 201. For most of its history the area was never a single political entity, even during the Tokugawa Period, when the port was controlle...
