American author Rita Mae Brown once wryly observed, "If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done." As a current ...

With a long history as Japan's mercantile heart and major port of call, Osaka is dense and delightfully in your face. Now, as ...

designated 108 Osaka Metro stations in March. The civil protection law that took effect in 2004 puts the onus on 47 prefectural governors and the mayors of 20 major cities to designate sturdy ...

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 ...

Hidden away among factories and warehouses in the industrial wilderness of Kitakagaya, some 10 minutes on foot from the metro station, is one of Osaka’s premier ...

Maeda Takahiro at Osaka Metro, the company that operates the vehicles, said, "We'd like people to experience at least a little of what the future holds for autonomous driving." A monitor shows ...

The subway, vital to city living. But after around 40 years, most Osaka Metro subway cars are scrapped. Thanks to two creators, a new upcycling project is underway.

OSAKA--The pavilion for the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo will be designed to give visitors a feeling that they are under water. A preview of the design showed that water will run through a transparent ...