The Latest Breaking News from Osaka

The Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) offices in Tokyo and Osaka, in cooperation with the ASEAN Japan Center, on 3-4 February 2022, jointly organised an Online Press Mission on “Thailand's Comprehensive Strategy for Bio-Circular-Green (BCG) Economic Model and Current Situation of Electric Vehicle (EV) Industry” to promote investment in Thailand’s…

The rumors are true. Honda's been hard at work on its new Hawk 11, and plans to finally show it off to the world at the 2022 Osaka Motorcycle Show.

OSAKA, Japan — Canada's women's basketball team has apparently qualified for the FIBA World Cup before its qualifying tournament has even tipped off.

The quasi-emergency measures to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus will be applied to 18 more prefectures, including Hokkaido, Osaka, and Fukuoka, the government decided Tuesday.

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Public health centers were stretched to the limit during last summer's fifth wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic, prompting the government in October to ask prefectural governments to make additional arrangements in preparation for future outbreaks.

Tokyo and 12 other prefectures are now under quasi-emergency priority measures, effective from Friday, to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Soon, Osaka and Hokkaido will be among the eight other prefectures expected to join them.

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura said the prefecture would request quasi-emergency priority measures be applied in the prefecture, as the occupancy rate of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients is close to 35%, the benchmark for seeking such measures.

Japan's western prefecture of Osaka and two neighbouring regions are expected to join in a widening declaration of COVID-19 prevention measures, Osaka's governor said on Thursday.