TOKYO -- A fire broke out in a wooden two-story apartment building early Sunday in Nishinari Ward of Japan's Osaka, leaving two dead, local media reported. A resident alerted the fire department just ...

marks the first of its kind among major Japanese cities. “The expo is an excellent opportunity to showcase Osaka’s appeal,” said Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama. “To create a beautiful city worthy ...

Osaka Kansai bills itself as the “People’s Living Lab – a laboratory for a future society” and challenges the world to ...

Popular Japanese boy band JO1 has accepted a request from the United Nations to raise awareness about important global issues ...

A new tourism hub on Awaji Island in west Japan -- known since ancient times for supplying food to the Imperial court -- is ...

For over 20 years, a social activist Catholic church group in Osaka has been helping refugees and children with foreign roots ...

The film “Saba” has been selected for the competition section of the 20th Osaka Asian Film Festival in Japan. Director Maksud ...

The pavilion features art by Naomi Kawase, Melanie Laurent, Hiro Chiba and Mariko Mori, while Toshiya Ogino did the landscaping and Chitose Abe designed the attendants' uniforms If there's one place ...

Naomi Osaka showed that she is on the road to recovery from the abdominal injury that forced her out of the Australian Open ...