Ōsaka News

The municipal government of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, has given up on recruiting students who have employment offers withdrawn after the central government told local officials the plan is against the principle of equality under the Local Public Service Law, city...

Paramount Pictures may build a theme park near the city of Osaka, the prefectural government said Monday. Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto has spoken to Paramount, a unit of Viacom Inc., about a proposal to redevelop the Expoland amusement park site...

Roughly one in five of the 1,000 people who lined up to be among the first to buy a new burger at a McDonald's outlet here Tuesday before the store opened were paid to stand in line, sources said. McDonald's...

A Vietnam Airlines co-pilot was arrested Wednesday for allegedly attempting to take to Vietnam items stolen by Vietnamese theft groups operating in Japan, police said. Dang Xuan Hop, a 33-year-old Vietnamese, has denied knowing that the goods were stolen, police...