Missed Myaku-Myaku? Osaka Expo’s beloved mascot is back in Osaka City until year-end
After 184 days, Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan finally concluded its six-month run on October 13. The event was a success, attracting a total of 25.58 million visitors. Its weirdly adorable mascot, the shap…
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https://www.alojapan.com/1398882/missed-myaku-myaku-osaka-expos-beloved-mascot-is-back-in-osaka-city-until-year-end/
Tokyo Trust Capital Bets on Osaka Retail With $150M Acquisition
The retail property is located near Osaka’s most famous sign Osaka has wrapped up its biggest tourism event in decades with the close of the World Expo earlier this month, but a Singapore-linked asset manager is buying a retail building along the city’s best-known shopping strip in a bet that the…
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https://www.alojapan.com/1398837/tokyo-trust-capital-bets-on-osaka-retail-with-150m-acquisition/
Man arrested after 14-hour police standoff in Osaka
Osaka police stormed an apartment Wednesday night and arrested a man after a 14-hour standoff in which he held a woman he was living with at knifepoint. Investigators from the prefectural police visited the unit in the city of Hirakata’s Sakuramachi area at around 8:50 a.m. as part of a theft inv…
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https://www.alojapan.com/1398790/man-arrested-after-14-hour-police-standoff-in-osaka/
The Torches of Milano Cortina 2026 Take Center Stage at the Closing Ceremony of Expo 2025 Osaka
The Olympic and Paralympic Torches of Milano Cortina 2026 are returning home. On Monday, October 13, during the closing day of Expo 2025 Osaka, the Italy Pavilion hosted the Closing Ceremony of the international event, during whic…
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https://www.alojapan.com/1396562/the-torches-of-milano-cortina-2026-take-center-stage-at-the-closing-ceremony-of-expo-2025-osaka-2/
The Olympic and Paralympic Torches of Milano Cortina 2026 are returning home. On Monday, October 13, during the closing day of Expo 2025 Osaka, the Italy
Taking pride in its Okinawan roots, Osaka’s Eisa festival marks 50th year
On Sept. 14, 1975, the sky above Osaka was cloudless. In the city’s Taisho Ward — home to many people from Okinawa Prefecture — the first-ever Eisa dance festival was held by a group of young Okinawans who had moved to the Kansai region thr…
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https://www.alojapan.com/1396529/taking-pride-in-its-okinawan-roots-osakas-eisa-festival-marks-50th-year/
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