The unforeseen consequences of modern lifestyles are coming to the forefront as health care costs spike in developed ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher and policy planners from Sakai City investigated the effect of a train fare ...

This is the Osaka to Kyoto bullet train process and experience on the Shinkansen high speed train in October 2023. The train ride is very short only 43km and takes around 20 minutes I sat in the ...

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OSAKA, Japan >> A huge artwork draws visitors to JR Osaka Station, on the walk northward from the ticket gate to the west exit. The Fountain Boy, a black concrete sphere about 9 feet in diameter and ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

OSAKA: Thousands of visitors to the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo were forced to spend the night at the venue after a power failure disrupted services on the train line offering direct access to the site.

Some 30,000 visitors were left stranded at the Osaka Expo on Wednesday night due to a train fault, forcing many to take respite from the summer heat at the event’s pavilions until Thursday morning ...

A "calm down, cool down" space is seen at Osaka Metro's Yumeshima Station in the city of Osaka's Konohana Ward on May 12, 2025. This space has no roof, and light enters directly from above.

The children, who had been on their way home from school, were injured and rushed to hospital but all seven remained conscious. Japanese police arrested a man after they said he ploughed his car ...

Tokyo-Japanese police arrested a man after they said he ploughed his car deliberately into seven primary school children in the western city of Osaka on May 1. The children, who had been on their way ...

TOKYO — It’s likely some of the tens of thousands of passengers were hissing with anger after a snake brought Japan’s busiest bullet train line to a halt. The 39-inch reptile slithered onto an ...