OSAKA--The nation's first casino-centered integrated resort (IR), planned on a manmade island here, remains a safe bet although the opening will be pushed back a year to around autumn 2030.

OSAKA—Osaka Metropolitan University in the 2027 academic year will start graduate school programs and some undergraduate courses in autumn to attract more foreign students and to promote studies ...

ONOMICHI, Japan -- In late October, as the autumn leaves were turning yellow, I sat on the deck of a ferry crossing part of the Seto Inland Sea, a 440-kilometer-long body of water that separates the ...