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

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

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 ...

Kyutaromachi, the area just west of Honmachi metro station, has historically been a centre for Osaka’s textile trade. Though ...

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 ...

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 temples of deep beats and all ...

with over 130,000 people expected to use the new station on the Osaka Metro Chuo Line on a busy day. A journey from the station to the major Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train station of Shin-Osaka ...

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 ...