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Rail company inundated with requests after putting up for sale 50 of the disused trolleys from the Tokyo-Osaka shinkansen route

Co-production with Osaka company brings 1976 study of American imperialism arriving in Japan to subtle, funny life

Lindsay Thorngren, a 17-year-old from New Jersey, was the surprise leader after the women’s short program at the NHK Trophy in Osaka

Middle-class consumers around the world – including in countries with no tradition of eating noodles – are turning to instant ramen in droves

The Japanese photographer finds beauty in an Osaka traffic jam

Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name puts legendary hard man Kazuma Kiryu back in the starring role in this compelling, emotional, and relatively bite-sized spin-off.

Many in the city have put the Hanshin Tigers’ lack of success down to an unusual Colonel Sanders-based superstition, but it may be about to end

EU accused of not offering enough access for Australian beef, sheep, dairy and sugar exporters