but Osaka residents funded the reconstruction, allowing it to remain a beautiful historical monument. In fact, there are only 12 castles in Japan where the main keep has survived, described as ...

Some bereaved family members visit the monument as a sort of grave marker. Osaka prefectural police statistics from 1942 show some 410,000 Koreans lived in Osaka at the time. But fewer than 20 ...

A massive fire erupted in a commercial building near the famous Tsutenkaku Tower, a popular tourist landmark in Osaka in western Japan, according to media reports on Tuesday. The fire erupted on ...

In 1970, Osaka hosted Japan's first ever World Expo. The iconic monument to that event, the Tower of the Sun, still remains. At that edition of the event, attention was focused on the state-of-the ...