The contractor initially proposed a bill of 86.25 million yen to bury the whale that died in Osaka Bay in January 2023 near the mouth of the Yodogawa river. The city’s estimate was 37.74 million ...

OSAKA--Endangered Japanese eels are thriving in a seemingly unlikely spot, the Dotonborigawa river that runs through the city’s busy Minami entertainment district. Eels were caught there for the ...

Osaka is a dynamic city with a dynamic history. Photographer Alfie Goodrich captures the food culture of the "Kitchen of Japan," the waterways that made it a commercial center, and the ...