News in Kobe, Kansai

April 22, 2006

KOBE -- A Kobe municipal cemetery for foreign residents was opened to the general public on Saturday for the first time in 40 years, allowing visitors into an exotic atmosphere created by statues and cross-engraved gravestones.

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Apr. 21, 2006

KOBE, Japan In Kansai, Japan's second largest economic region, there is a saying: Choosy people study in Kyoto, home to dozens of universities, and do business in Osaka - but they live in Kobe.

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Apr. 17, 2006

A 79-year-old American company operator and well-known figure in the foreign communities of Kobe and Osaka will return to the land of his birth next month after living nearly 59 years in Japan.

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