Oita Airport will be temporarily renamed "Oita Hello Kitty Airport" during the World Expo in Osaka Prefecture, which kicks ...

An artisan adds a finishing touch on a "koinobori" carp streamer at the workshop Takagi in the Osaka Prefecture city of Sakai ...

With popular neighborhoods, like Dotonbori and Shinsekai, coupled with iconic Japanese foods such as takoyaki (grilled ...

A third grader in this western Japan city who dreams of becoming a robot engineer in the future has successfully passed the ...

A memorial will be held here March 13 to mark 80 years since the first major air raid on this city in the last stages of ...

An unemployed man who lives in Hirano Ward in the city of Osaka allegedly abandoned the child's body in the city of Yao, ...

Products to be showcased at the Expo include a jacket that can automatically adjust the temperature inside it.

MINOO, Osaka Prefecture--More than a century ago, the "kawadoko" riverside dining experience along the Minoogawa river, which flows from the famed Minoo Otaki waterfall here, was a popular ...

SoftBank announced the acquisition of part of Sharp's Sakai Display Products (SDP) factory in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, for ...

Japanese singer and actor Ishida Ayumi died of thyroid gland malfunction last Tuesday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 76 ...