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LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Oct 21, 2017
Umaiya: Anything you like, as long as it's takoyaki sans mayo
Umaiya is old-school. There are no innovations here, and furthermore there's no mayonnaise, so don't bother asking for it.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 18, 2017
Views from Osaka: Will you vote on Sunday? If so, based on what? If not, why not?
Japanese citizens in Kansai's commercial capital were asked whether they plan to cast a ballot in the Oct. 22 Lower House poll — and why (or why not).
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 18, 2017
Gamba defender Oh Jae-suk to miss three weeks with hamstring injury
Gamba Osaka defender Oh Jae-suk will be sidelined for three weeks with a hamstring injury, the J. League first-division side announced Wednesday.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 18, 2017
Driver blinded by sun injures five children and teacher near Osaka
Five children and a junior high school teacher were injured Wednesday morning when a car careened into them in Osaka Prefecture, police and rescue workers said. The driver blamed "blinding sunshine."
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JAPAN
Oct 17, 2017
Osaka, Japan's gritty second city, suddenly a destination amid Asian tourist boom
Amid the gloom and struggle that Osaka has gone through in recent years, a tourism boom has been an unexpected boon for Japan's gritty second city.
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JAPAN / View from Osaka
Oct 14, 2017
Osaka-Tokyo regional split seen keeping Koike's, Hashimoto's camps at arm's length
The rise and — so far — fall in popularity of Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike's Kibo no To (Party of Hope) comes as no surprise in Osaka, where her ability to govern effectively, as opposed to deal with the media, has long been in doubt.
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JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 12, 2017
Koike's Kibo no To takes a hit as popular Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura cuts support
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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 11, 2017
Politically savvy teen in Mino casts first early vote in Lower House election
An 18-year-old high school student Wednesday cast the first early vote in the House of Representatives election, which is open to those ages 18 and 19 for the first time.
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SOCCER / J. League
Oct 8, 2017
Cerezo, Frontale advance to J. League Cup final
Yasuki Kimoto scored a dramatic injury-time winner as Cerezo Osaka edged local rivals Gamba Osaka 2-1 on Sunday to reach their first J. League Cup final.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2017
'Comfort women' row threatens Osaka-San Francisco sister city relationship
The debate over statues memorializing “comfort women” is threatening to upend six-decade sister city ties between Osaka and San Francisco.
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SOCCER / J. League
Oct 4, 2017
Gamba grab late draw in J. League Cup semifinal first leg against Cerezo
Substitute Haruya Ide scored a crucial late equalizer as Gamba Osaka earned a 2-2 draw away to local rival Cerezo Osaka in the first leg of the Japanese League Cup semifinals on Wednesday night.
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JAPAN
Oct 2, 2017
Researchers' work questioned after errors discovered in Kumamoto quake data
The science ministry is looking into whether quake-strength data was falsified or fabricated.
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JAPAN
Oct 2, 2017
Kansai refugee support group Rafiq marking its first anniversary
Nanmin House, a community house in the city of Osaka run by Rafiq, the only citizens' group in the Kansai region that supports refugees, is commemorating its first anniversary this month.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 28, 2017
Osaka hospital steps up under new autopsy law to ease forensic medicine shortage
A hospital in Osaka began performing autopsies to investigate causes of death at police request in April for cases in which foul play is not strongly suspected, in response to a chronic shortage of anatomists in Japan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 27, 2017
Osaka court rules tattoo artist's work violated medical law, was not art or expression
An Osaka tattoo artist was found guilty Wednesday of violating the Medical Practitioners' Law in a case that drew international attention to Japan's tattoo culture.
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JAPAN
Sep 26, 2017
Japan submits Osaka's bid to host 2025 world expo
The government on Monday submitted a bid for Osaka to host the 2025 world exposition to the Bureau International des Expositions in Paris.
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JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2017
Osaka's leaders complain about San Francisco 'comfort women' statue to U.S. Ambassador Hagerty
In a meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty on Monday, Osaka's leaders expressed solidarity with America over North Korea but concern that San Francisco, Osaka's sister city, erected a monument to the wartime "comfort women" who were forced into Japanese military brothels before and during...
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JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2017
Sakai mayor again bests Osaka Ishin challenger in rematch over metro-merger quest
Sakai Mayor Osami Takeyama defeated his Osaka Ishin no Kai challenger again in an election Sunday that was viewed as a rematch over the regional party's campaign to merge Osaka's municipal governments with the prefectural government.
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JAPAN
Sep 24, 2017
Plane part falls onto car after takeoff at Osaka airport; no one injured
A panel weighing around 4 kg fell off a plane shortly after takeoff Saturday at Kansai International Airport and hit a car on a road in Osaka, the transport ministry said.
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JAPAN / Politics / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Sep 24, 2017
Local, national agendas shade parties' prospects in expected snap poll
As Japan gears up for an anticipated snap election at the end of October, Kansai politicians and parties are staking out their positions on issues of national interest but with their eyes very much on local political needs.

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