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Kobe museum shows expressway portion damaged by 1995 quake

OSAKA, Japan - Visitors listen to a guide explain about a twisted steel bridge girder resulting from the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake at the Hanshin Expressway Technology Center's Earthquake Museum in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015. Hanshin Expressway Co. opened the museum to the public during a two-day event ahead of the quake's 20th anniversary on Jan. 17.

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Kobe museum shows expressway structure damaged by 1995 quake

OSAKA, Japan - Visitors look at a section of the Hanshin Expressway filled with cracks resulting from the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake at the Hanshin Expressway Technology Center's Earthquake Museum in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015. Hanshin Expressway Co. opened the museum to the public during a two-day event ahead of the quake's 20th anniversary on Jan. 17.

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Tesla Model S

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Photo shows the Model S, an electric vehicle of Tesla Motors Inc., in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 26, 2013, as the U.S. electric vehicle manufacturer held a demonstration ride for reporters on the Hanshin Expressway.

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Tesla Model S

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Photo shows the interior of the Model S, an electric vehicle of Tesla Motors Inc., in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 26, 2013, as the U.S. electric vehicle manufacturer held a demonstration ride for reporters on the Hanshin Expressway.

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2 killed after car falls off highway and jumps over train tracks

KOBE, Japan - A heavily damaged car in which a man and a woman were killed when it crashed through a barrier on the Hanshin Expressway in Kobe is hoisted by crane on June 28. Tatsuhiro Nikai, 53, an unemployed man from Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, and his wife Michiko, also 53, were confirmed dead on the spot.

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2 killed after car falls off highway and jumps over train tracks

KOBE, Japan - This aerial photo shows the scene where a car carrying a man and a woman crashed through a barrier (1) on the Hanshin Expressway in Kobe, dropped about a dozen meters on to a parking lot (2) and jumped over train tracks to end up in a bamboo grove (3) on June 28. Tatsuhiro Nikai, 53, an unemployed man from Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, and his wife Michiko, also 53, were confirmed dead on the spot.

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6 privatized firms licensed to operate Japan's highways

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kazuo Kitagawa (far L) speaks at his ministry on March 31 before the leaders from Metropolitan Expressway Co., Hanshin Expressway Co. and Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Co., East Nippon Expressway Co., Central Nippon Expressway Co. and West Nippon Expressway Co. The government licensed the six privatized corporations to operate the nation's highways, completing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's initiative to privatize four highway-related public corporations.

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2 dead in 9-vehicle pileup on Hanshin Expressway

KOBE, Japan - Two drivers of large trucks were killed and several other people injured in a nine-vehicle pileup on the Hanshin Expressway in Kobe's Hyogo Ward on April 30.

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Court dismisses damages claim over highway collapse in quake

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Michiko Yorozu speaks at a news conference in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 28 after the Amagasaki branch of the Kobe District Court dismissed a damages suit she filed claiming compensation for the death of her adopted son in the collapse of the Hanshin Expressway in the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Yorozu, 79, claimed the incident occurred because Hanshin Expressway Public Corp. had failed to build piers of sufficient strength for the highway overpass.

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Police raid Hanshin Expressway HQ over bid rigging

OSAKA, Japan - Police officials make for the headquarters of Hanshin Expressway Public Corp. in Osaka on Nov. 3 to collect evidence in a bid-rigging case involving a former deputy manager of the public road entity's Osaka administration department.

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Residents, gov't strike deal on pollution suit

OSAKA, Japan - Mitsuko Matsu (L), leader of plaintiffs in an air pollution suit in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, shakes hands with chief lawyer Hideo Nakao outside the Osaka High Court on Dec. 8. The plaintiffs reached an official settlement with the central government to end a 12-year battle over air pollution from vehicle exhaust emissions. The government and the state-run Hanshin Expressway Public Corp. promised to take steps to restrict traffic along National Highway 43 and the Kobe sector of the Hanshin Expressway.

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Hanshin Expressway

Hanshin Expressway linking Kobe and Osaka reopened at September 30, 1996, which was once destroyed by Kobe earthquake. (Photo taken on September 30, 1996)

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Overturned trailer on highway in Osaka

Photo taken Jan. 27, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an overturned trailer blocking the lanes in Osaka on the Hanshin Expressway.

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Overturned trailer on highway in Osaka

Photo taken Jan. 27, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an overturned trailer (green) blocking the lanes in Osaka on the Hanshin Expressway.

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Overturned trailer on highway in Osaka

Photo taken Jan. 27, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an overturned trailer blocking the lanes in Osaka on the Hanshin Expressway.

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Overturned trailer on highway in Osaka

Photo taken Jan. 27, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an overturned trailer blocking the lanes in Osaka on the Hanshin Expressway.

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6 privatized firms licensed to operate Japan's highways

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kazuo Kitagawa (far L) speaks at his ministry on March 31 before the leaders from Metropolitan Expressway Co., Hanshin Expressway Co. and Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Co., East Nippon Expressway Co., Central Nippon Expressway Co. and West Nippon Expressway Co. The government licensed the six privatized corporations to operate the nation's highways, completing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's initiative to privatize four highway-related public corporations. (Kyodo)

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2 dead in 9-vehicle pileup on Hanshin Expressway

KOBE, Japan - Two drivers of large trucks were killed and several other people injured in a nine-vehicle pileup on the Hanshin Expressway in Kobe's Hyogo Ward on April 30. (Kyodo)

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Police raid Hanshin Expressway HQ over bid rigging

OSAKA, Japan - Police officials make for the headquarters of Hanshin Expressway Public Corp. in Osaka on Nov. 3 to collect evidence in a bid-rigging case involving a former deputy manager of the public road entity's Osaka administration department. (Kyodo)

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Court dismisses damages claim over highway collapse in quake

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Michiko Yorozu speaks at a news conference in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 28 after the Amagasaki branch of the Kobe District Court dismissed a damages suit she filed claiming compensation for the death of her adopted son in the collapse of the Hanshin Expressway in the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Yorozu, 79, claimed the incident occurred because Hanshin Expressway Public Corp. had failed to build piers of sufficient strength for the highway overpass. (Kyodo)

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2 killed after car falls off highway and jumps over train tracks

KOBE, Japan - This aerial photo shows the scene where a car carrying a man and a woman crashed through a barrier (1) on the Hanshin Expressway in Kobe, dropped about a dozen meters on to a parking lot (2) and jumped over train tracks to end up in a bamboo grove (3) on June 28. Tatsuhiro Nikai, 53, an unemployed man from Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, and his wife Michiko, also 53, were confirmed dead on the spot. (Kyodo)

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2 killed after car falls off highway and jumps over train tracks

KOBE, Japan - A heavily damaged car in which a man and a woman were killed when it crashed through a barrier on the Hanshin Expressway in Kobe is hoisted by crane on June 28. Tatsuhiro Nikai, 53, an unemployed man from Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, and his wife Michiko, also 53, were confirmed dead on the spot. (Kyodo)

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Kobe museum shows expressway portion damaged by 1995 quake

OSAKA, Japan - Visitors listen to a guide explain about a twisted steel bridge girder resulting from the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake at the Hanshin Expressway Technology Center's Earthquake Museum in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015. Hanshin Expressway Co. opened the museum to the public during a two-day event ahead of the quake's 20th anniversary on Jan. 17. (Kyodo)

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New coronavirus

Carp streamers are raised over Hanshin Expressway in Osaka on Children's Day on May 5, 2020, a day after a nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic was extended until the end of May. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows less traffic than usual on the Hanshin Expressway in Osaka on April 8, 2020, a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures in response to a recent surge in coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's first capsule hotel in rest area

Photo taken Aug. 6, 2019, shows a building housing Japan's first capsule hotel in a rest area, on the Hanshin Expressway in Izumiotsu, near Osaka in western Japan. The hotel was shown to the media the same day, ahead of its opening on Aug. 17. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's first capsule hotel in rest area

Japan's first capsule hotel in a rest area, on the Hanshin Expressway in Izumiotsu, near Osaka in western Japan, is shown to the media on Aug. 6, 2019, ahead of its opening on Aug. 17. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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G-20 summit in Osaka

Photo taken from a media helicopter June 27, 2019, shows empty highways on the Hanshin Expressway in Osaka, closed as part of security measures for a Group of 20 summit that will start the following day in the western Japan city. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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G-20 summit in Osaka

Photo taken from a media helicopter June 27, 2019, shows empty highways on the Hanshin Expressway in Osaka, closed as part of security measures for a Group of 20 summit that will start the following day in the western Japan city. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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State, road corp. ordered to cut car exhaust emissions

OSAKA, Japan - A group of plaintiffs visit the Construction Ministry's Kinki bureau in Osaka on Jan. 31 after they won a lawsuit over the reduction of vehicle exhaust emissions in the western Japan city of Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. The Kobe District Court ordered the central government and Hanshin Expressway Public Corp. to reduce vehicle exhaust emissions in the city and pay 330 million yen in compensation to 50 residents of the city suffering from various respiratory illnesses caused by air pollution.