OSAKA—An eviction order was carried out in Osaka’s Kamagasaki district, the largest town for day laborers in Japan, eliciting angry cries of protests and desperate expressions of helplessness.

A man who killed five people by setting fire to a pachinko parlour in Osaka in 2009 has been hanged in Japan's first execution by Sanae Takaichi's government.

Japan early Friday executed a 58-year-old man convicted of killing five people in a fire he ignited at a pachinko parlor in Osaka 17 years ago.

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OSAKA, Japan — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, speaking at Saturday’s opening ceremony for the Osaka expo, expressed his hope that the event will help restore global unity in a world plagued ...

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Teeth unearthed in Osaka have unveiled a diverse dietary landscape of commoners, revealing that their dental calculus held ...

Japan on Friday carried out its first execution under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government, hanging a man convicted of killing five people in an arson attack at a pachinko parlour in Osaka in ...

The city of Osaka has recently been inundated with over a hundred inquiries after it installed a series of rectangular ...