Kobe Earthquake

[Captain Japan]

I am doing a little research on the 1995 Kobe earthquake. I am interested in any crime, unemployment, and suicide statistics where I can compare the situation before and after the quake. Could anyone point me in the right direction (in English or Japanese)? I can offer a more detailed idea of what I am after if needed. Just fire me a PM. Thank you very much for any assistance.

[Taro Toporific]

I am doing a little research on the 1995 Kobe earthquake. I am interested in any crime, unemployment, and suicide statistics where I can compare the situation before and after the quake. Could anyone point me in the right direction (in English or Japanese)?

In general for academic and "serious" discussion about Japan. go to the NBR, The National Bureau of Asian Research of the Japan-U.S Friendship Commission.

In this case, it will be a good source of academic, first-person, and first-person academic accounts of the Kobe earthquake are in these posting of the NBR's Japan-U.S. Discussion Forum.

Also you can interview the folks at the Tokyo Help Line since they ran the relief effort in Tokyo for the Kobe earthquake recovery .