An organization consisting of restaurant businesses in Osaka Prefecture submitted a petition to the Osaka city assembly in November last year, asking it to establish more public smoking spaces ...

Nose Town is located about 30 kilometers north of central Osaka. With terraced rice fields and villages surrounded by groves of trees, the satoyama landscape from long ago is interwoven with the ...

Osaka Prefecture in 2013 released a scenario centered on a tsunami triggered by a Nankai Trough mega-quake. It stated that wide areas of Osaka City could flood in a worst-case scenario ― which ...