Born in the Hyōgo Prefecture capital city of Kobe, he studied oil painting at Osaka University of Arts.

Ironically, Kobe, the home city of the largest yakuza syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi, is one of the safest cities in Japan, because " cheap " criminals such as street gangs and thugs are afraid to attract the yakuza's attention so they avoid being active in the city.

He first reached the port city of Nagasaki, and then boarded a steamer to Kobe.

The bridge links the city of Kobe on the mainland of Honshu to Iwaya on Awaji Island by crossing the busy Akashi Strait.

In 1180, near the end of the Heian Period, Emperor Antoku, Taira no Kiyomori, and the Imperial court moved briefly to Fukuhara, in what is now the city of Kobe.

The first Japanese immigrants who were for Amazon left the Port of Kobe in Japan, on July 24, 1926, and only reached the city of Tomé-Açu, on 22 September of that year, with stops in Rio de January and Belém.

is a train station located on the Sanyō Shinkansen line serving the city of Kobe, Japan and the surrounding area.

It is located to the north of Kobe city centre, at the foot of Mount Rokkō.

Although Kobe Station is the namesake of its city and the closest station to Kobe City Hall, the commercial center of Kobe is closer to Sannomiya Station.

is an agency of the city government of Kobe, Japan that operates municipal subways and city buses.

The city tram of Kobe opened in 1910 by a private company and was purchased by the city government in 1917.

Isuzu retains a large truck factory near Shonandai, Kobe Steel has a factory in the east of the city, as does NSK Microprecision, a maker of bearings and precision parts.

is a city located in southern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, on the Seto Inland Sea west of Kobe.

Sumoto city is famous for many items some of which are Awaji onions, Naruto oranges and Kobe Beef.

Sanda city is located in the southeast of the Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan, and it is about to the north of the city of Kobe beyond the Rokkō Mountains and in a region about northwest of the city of Osaka.

The city government of Kobe first proposed an airport adjacent to Port Island in 1971.

The mayor of Kobe, Tatsuo Miyazaki, declared his opposition to building such a large airport so close to the city, and was re-elected shortly afterward in 1973, defeating a competitor who supported the airport.

Kobe businesses were still interested in the plan, however, and pressed the city government to propose a smaller facility with one runway.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.

The inference has been too widely accepted that because the Communists have succeeded in building barricades across Berlin the free world must acquiesce in dismemberment of that living city.

Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.

The city has a stake in stimulating growth and purchasing power throughout outstate Missouri and Southern Illinois.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

When a city has arranged things like this you cannot easily change them.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

`` For three days now a German reconnaissance plane has been over the city taking pictures.

Land within commuting distance of a growing city is usually high in price, higher if it has subdivision possibilities.

`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.

In the city, he said, the waiting list for those who want to join the union is so long that unless a boy has an inside track he can't get in.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

Mr. Hawksley, the state's general treasurer, has been a part-time CD director in the city for the last nine years.

These contend there is a serious question as to whether Mr. Wagner has the confidence of the Democratic rank and file in the city.

The city has sued for the full amount of the $172,400 performance bond covering the contract.

Gladden has been an outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen in 1959.

Mrs. Mary Self, who knows more than any other person about the 5,000 city employes for whom she has kept personnel records over the years, has closed her desk and retired.

A startlingly high percentage do not exceed $500 annually, which includes the librarian's salary, and not even the New York Public has enough money to meet its needs -- this in the world's richest city.

Practically everybody in Berlin has relatives and friends that live in the opposite part of the city.

As soon as the fox has taken hold on most of the populace he imports more wharf rats, who, of course, say they are the aggrieved victims of an extermination campaign in the city.

In describing the initial Allied occupation of a middle-sized German city, the picture has color, pictorial pull and genuinely moving moments.