In Jan 1996, a big earthquake hit Kobe area
and over 6000 people got killed.
This monument tells you some hundreds of names
of those who passed away.

This monument is made by Kagoshima Prefecture
and they chose only the ones that were from
their prefecture.

I don't understand why .. but Japanese do this
all the time .. segregating even the dead.
They often make cemetaries of Japanese
soldiers in those lands where Japan invaded.
They dig their lands and choose bones of
Japanese only.
How about those local people who got killed
by the invaders?
I don't understand why they don't think that
something is seriously wrong.