Osaka has implemented a strict smoking ban in public areas as it prepares to host Expo 2025, aiming to enhance safety, ...

The Japanese city is “beautifying” itself ahead of hosting the World Expo — not by planting flowers, but by banning ...

In the Nakanoshima area, zelkova trees along a 150-meter-long span at the side of the Osaka city hall are illuminated in champagne gold. The trees are lit up between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. The ...

The Yokohama City Hall and seaside mall Yokohama Hammerhead ... as well as to other "The City" events held in the city. In Osaka, “The City” project’s more eye-catching events will be ...

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 ...

The fire erupted on the first floor of the five-story building at Tsutenkaku Hondori Shopping Street in Naniwa Ward, Osaka City at about 5pm local time, according to public broadcaster NHK Japan.

Myaku, the official mascot for the 2025 World Exposition outside of a city hall in Osaka, western Japan, Friday, Jan. 17, ...

A pair of 10-kilometer races were held in the western Japanese city of Osaka on Friday to mark 100 ... in the large circular ring roof of the expo hall as runners made their way around the site.