OSAKA—Presiding Judge Kumiko Honda of the Osaka High Court here ruled in favor of LGBT plaintiffs on March 25 over the ...

OSAKA—An eviction order was carried out in Osaka’s Kamagasaki district, the largest town for day laborers in Japan, eliciting angry cries of protests and desperate expressions of helplessness ...

Authorities believe two men drowned themselves after the fortune-teller told them it was a way to cleanse evil from people ...

A bag containing dismembered body parts was found in a flowerbed on a promenade in Osaka City earlier this week, police said Friday. According to police, a passerby saw a green bag with its top open ...

Police on Tuesday arrested fortuneteller Toshie Hamada, 62, and accomplice Naori Takitani, 59, for instigating Kohei Teramoto ...

ASAHI beer may come across as a beverage that appeals to the young here, but in Japan, it is no newcomer. Founded in Osaka, Japan during the First World War, the beer’s humble beginnings date ...

American author Rita Mae Brown once wryly observed, "If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done." As a current example of that axiom, Asahi Geino (March 20) offers a hazard map of ...