OSAKA/TOKYO, March 12 (Reuters) - Osaka, long Japan's "second city," is winning the race against Tokyo to draw foreign tourists, but after a boom, its retailers and property developers are adapting to ...

As any local will tell you, Osaka is proudly different. Japan’s third biggest city has a reputation for being fun-loving and energetic, with a colourful dialect that distinguishes it from Tokyo and ...

Denryu Lin, who runs about 80 vacation rentals in central Osaka, is watching his business evaporate since late November as tensions between Tokyo and Beijing escalate. Over 600 bookings — more than ...

Osaka, Japan’s second-largest economic hub and one of the clearest symbols of the nation’s reliance on Chinese tourism, is ...

Ireland's groundbreaking marriage equality vote will be five years old this May - but have you seen one major ad campaign to attract the sought after LGBT tourist market to our shores? It turns out ...

Well, it took about two weeks to fix the sinkhole in Fukuoka. I wonder how fast they'll be able to fix the bridge now that they're expecting to start work this month. Say what you want about Japan but ...

OSAKA -- Local convention and tourism officials said Wednesday they would welcome the chance to build casinos here should the central government decide to legalize gambling. It would be a positive ...