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Tokyo named world's best city outside U.S. for third year in row in Conde Nast magazine poll
Tokyo has been chosen as the world's best big city outside the United States for the third year in a row, the U.S. travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler said Tuesday. Readers cast more than 420,000 votes for their favorite cities in the 2018 poll, the ...
Osaka to recognize two websites with curated content as hate speech against Koreans living in Japan
A panel commissioned by the Osaka Municipal Government has said it has recognized two websites with curated content as amounting to hate speech against Koreans living in Japan. The municipal government plans to authorize the findings and ask internet service providers to take down the ...
San Francisco mayor denounces Osaka counterpart for 'unilaterally' ending sister city ties
The mayor of San Francisco on Thursday denounced Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura for "unilaterally" ending the two cities' decades-old sister city relationship over a statue symbolizing Asian "comfort women," a euphemism used to refer to women and girls forced to provide sex for Japanese ...
The office of San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Wednesday it is "unfortunate" that Osaka has decided to terminate their sister-city relationship over a statue symbolizing Asian "comfort women," a euphemism for the girls and women forced to work in Japanese military brothels before ...
Osaka severs sister-city ties with San Francisco over 'comfort women' statue
The Osaka Municipal Government said Tuesday that it has sent a document to officially end its 61-year-old sister-city ties with San Francisco over a statue symbolizing the issue of "comfort women," or those forced to provide sex at Japanese military brothels before and during ...
A 30-year-old man recaptured after escaping from a police station in Osaka Prefecture in mid-August had likely been traveling on a stolen bicycle with another man who was unaware of who he was, police said Sunday. Junya Hida was with a 44-year-old man who had ...
Osaka fugitive, on the run since mid-August, is arrested for stealing food in Yamaguchi Prefecture
A 30-year-old fugitive who escaped from a police station in Osaka Prefecture in mid-August is arrested in Yamaguchi Prefecture for shoplifting rice cakes and other food at a roadside rest area.
Powerful Typhoon Trami batters Okinawa, churns toward mainland Japan
Powerful Typhoon Trami pummels Okinawa, injuring at least 18 people, as weather officials warn the storm will rip through the rest of the country over the weekend.
Osaka High Court tosses lower court ruling, denies Korean school's right to government subsidies
A high court Thursday scrapped a lower court ruling and decided a Korean school in Osaka is not eligible for the government's school tuition subsidies. The Osaka Korean High School, which teaches in Korean and provides a Korean-style education, had earlier sought to annul the ...
Universal Studios Japan to cut ticket prices for fall off-season
USJ Co. said Thursday it would lower ticket prices for Universal Studios Japan during the theme park's off-season, while raising them during busy periods. The operator of the park in the western city of Osaka said it would adopt a new price system to spread ...
Climate change will be high on next year's G20 summit agenda: Abe
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has signaled his intention to take up climate change as a key agenda item at the meeting of the Group of 20 advanced and developing economies that he will host next June. "Japan will preside over the G20 next year and ...
Need to back up sinking Kansai airport stymies region ahead of G20, elections
When Kansai airport in Osaka Prefecture was shut down earlier this month after Typhoon Jebi flooded the main runway and terminal building — and caused a tanker to break loose and crash into the only bridge to the mainland — there were fears the ...
