Osaka, Japan News

Peach launched services on its seventh domestic route from Osaka Kansai on 14 June, when it commenced flights on the 1,500-kilometre route to Ishigaki .

Kinmen, June 17 Taiwan's outlying island of Kinmen County is a bird watchers' paradise because of its many species and its importance as a stop for migratory birds, Masahiro Hashimoto, president of the Osaka branch of the Wild Bird Society of , said Monday.

Japanese shares rose, with the Topix index climbing for a second day amid low volume ahead of tomorrow's Federal Reserve policy meeting.

In the 1980s, American commentators and best-selling authors repeatedly sought to convince companies and workers to be more "Japanese."

Ironic as it may be, it's common knowledge that the Japanese are hard to beat when it comes to Americana.

WALES were left red-faced in the sweltering heat of Tokyo as Japan claimed a historic 23-8 victory over Robin McBryde's inexperienced side.

Japan are steeling themselves for an almighty effort in the final Test against Wales as they bid to break a drought against major rugby nations that stretches back nearly 80 years.

The reaction of many in the online community to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's June 5 speech on his government's growth strategy can be summed up in an emoticon: In a word, disappointment.

The winner of a preliminary contest for the "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students held recently in Osaka hoped to win the top prize at this year's final.

Some remote Japanese islands were drenched by the spiraling bands of Tropical Storm Yagi as the disturbance passed about 200 miles to the south of Tokyo.

Operators of the shinkansen bullet train in western Japan plan to reduce fares by up to 35% in response to intensifying competition with budget airlines.

Gatsby-inspired cocktail at SwissA tel Nankai Osaka; summer bar at Grand Hyatt Fukuoka; Spanish fair at Royal Park Hotel Timed with the release of the film "The Great Gatsby" in Japan, the SwissA tel Nankai Osaka is offering a special cocktail, through July 14. The hotel is Japan's only member of the Fairmont Raffles Hotels International group, ... (more)

Hanwha Group, the nation's 10th-largest conglomerate by assets, is to step up its penetration into the growing Japanese solar power market by establishing its second sales office in Osaka within the month, the company said on Thursday.

An investment promotion seminar on sustainable business in the Pearl River Delta economic zone , one of China's leading economic regions, was held on Wednesday afternoon in the western Japanese city of Osaka, attracting more than 100 company representatives and specialists in clean technology from the city and its surrounding region of Kansai.

It's 11 p.m. and Kanazawa venue Puddle is packed. The space is a two-room, wood-furnished cafe/bar in the city's Katamachi neighborhood.

WITH a bottle of SK-II's Facial Treatment Essence , popularly dubbed 'Miracle Water', being sold somewhere in the world every 28 seconds, it all adds up to a legion of fans.

Regarding the June 7 front-page article " Hashimoto to Abe: Fly Ospreys at Yao " by Eric Johnston: Yao Airport is a general aviation airport with two runways that intersect, one 1,490 meters in length and the other 1,200 meters.

Spanish textile giant Inditex, owner of the Zara brand, announced Wednesday a rise in quarterly profit as it pursued a global expansion with a string of new stores including in Japan, China and Russia.

The world's oldest person has died in Japan, aged 116 -- just days after the passing of a Chinese woman with a rival claim to the title.

Japan's human rights envoy to the United Nations was Wednesday facing calls to quit over a video which showed him shouting at fellow diplomats to "shut up".