thejapantimes, 4 days ago to business

The government has designated four areas as special zones to promote new entry and expansion of financial and asset management businesses and attract inflows of foreign investment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/06/05/asset-management-zones/ #business #investments #tokyo #osaka #sapporo #fukuoka

thejapantimes, 4 days ago to Japan

Osaka police are looking to freeze some 1,300 bank accounts opened by a group conducting a money laundering operation involving at least $450 million over seven months in 2023. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/05/japan/crime-legal/money-laundering-accounts/ #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #osaka #moneylaundering

dango3, 6 days ago to Japan

#castle #japan #osaka #goodmorning

thejapantimes, 12 days ago to Japan

A 30-year-old graduate of Osaka Metropolitan University was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing sodium cyanide from a lab at the university's Sugimoto campus in the city of Osaka. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/28/japan/crime-legal/man-stealing-sodium-cyanide-osaka-lab/ #japan #crimelegal #osaka #osakametropolitanuniversity

thejapantimes, 18 days ago to Japan

The Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a man on suspicion of stabbing to death a 19-year-old college student, who is believed to have been his girlfriend, in her apartment in the city of Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/22/japan/crime-legal/man-arrested-osaka-student-killing/ #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #stabbings #osaka

chuls, 18 days ago to Osaka

I would say, pretty much everything I've heard about Japan is true. Like that the big city transforms into a different beast at night. #Osaka during the day is lovely, but the nights here have a very unique energy, bustling, electric, releasing.

#Japan #StreetPhotography #TravelPhotography #Urban

Red signage against the night sky between power lines in dotonbori district in Osaka
Photo of dotonbori signage behind crowds of people in dotonbori district in Osaka
Octopus signage at a takoyaki shop in dotonbori district in Osaka

thejapantimes, 24 days ago to Japan

Two bottles of potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide — fast-acting poisons — have gone missing from a laboratory at Osaka Metropolitan University. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/16/japan/society/osakaunipoison/ #japan #society #osakametropolitanuniversity #osaka

thejapantimes, 25 days ago to business

Sharp is stopping production of large liquid crystal display television panels at its factory in the city of Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, the only production site for such TVs in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/15/companies/sharp-scales-back-lcd/ #business #companies #sharp #osaka #lcd #television

thejapantimes, 26 days ago to Japan

Nippon Ishin no Kai’s hopes of becoming Japan’s largest opposition party after the next general election has taken a hit from last month’s losses in two by-elections and a mayoral campaign in its home base of Osaka. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/14/japan/politics/nippon-ishin-defeat/ #japan #politics #nipponishinnokai #nobuyukibaba #ldp #fumitakefujita #cdp #daito #osaka #tokyo #hirofumiyoshimura

thejapantimes, 1 month ago to Japan

Osaka District Court has upheld a petition from an Osaka Prefecture resident seeking the deletion of online information about the area where he lives, which has historically suffered discrimination. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/08/japan/crime-legal/court-orders-deletion-of-info-on-discriminated-area/ #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #discrimination #osaka #internet

thejapantimes, 1 month ago to Japan

Labor tribunal proceedings, used in Japan as a way to resolve labor disputes behind closed doors, will sometimes include a nondisclosure agreement with the resolution, even if one of the parties objects to it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/07/japan/crime-legal/japan-labor-cases-nondisclosure/ #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #laborlaws #osaka #nagasaki

thejapantimes, 1 month ago to Japan

The number of homeless people in Japan fell 8.0% as of January from a year earlier to 2,820, the lowest level since data began in 2003, the health ministry said in a survey report Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/26/japan/society/homeless-people-record-low/ #japan #society #tokyo #osaka #kanagawa #poverty #homeless

alexanderhay, 1 month ago to Osaka

#Osaka Tennoji #Zoo has just confirmed one of its male #Hippos has, in fact, been female all this time. When will #Giff players finally riot?

"...A DNA test was carried out after zookeepers noticed that 12-year-old Gen-chan did not display typical male hippo behaviour.

"Gen-chan arrived in Osaka from Mexico in 2017, and customs documents at the time said she was male..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68884548

#News #Japan #Custodes #Warhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Warhammer40k #Nature #Wildlife

unseenjapan, 1 month ago to Japan

Costs for Osaka Expo 2025 keep rising - but the ticket sales needed to cover them aren't happening. Will taxpayers be stuck with the bill? A look at the reasons behind the public backlash against the expensive event.

https://unseen-japan.com/osaka-2025-expo-issues/

#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #osaka #news

norbertwoehnl, 1 month ago to ilaughed

“Slow Motion Ride”

A slow-motion video that I took while passing through Shin-Imamiya Station in Osaka a couple of years ago. 🚊

#video #slowmotion #zeitlupe #japanlife #osaka #japanesetrains #shotoniphone #japanstreet #streetphotography #fromthetrain

A slow-motion video taken from inside a train while passing through Shin-Imamiya Station in Osaka, Japan.