Street racing is obviously illegal and incredibly dangerous, but that has never stopped people from doing it. While we don’t hear nearly as much about the scourge of Japanese tuner cars as when The ...

OSAKA—The Osaka municipal government will start to ban smoking on all public streeets across the city on Jan. 27 next year, Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama said Nov. 12. Yokoyama announced the starting date ...

OSAKA—City workers on March 24 began cutting down a massive steel pipe that jutted up 13 meters from the ground near JR Osaka Station two weeks earlier, disrupting traffic in the central area. Using ...

The Japanese city of Osaka on Monday imposed a smoking ban on public streets as part of efforts to become more visitor-friendly ahead of this year's World Expo. Around 160 countries and regions are ...

The move comes "to improve the environment and beautify the city in a way that is appropriate for an international tourist city," according to the statement. The Japanese port city of Osaka has banned ...