Osaka News

BOJ Shirakawa urges action to avert global crisis

OSAKA (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said policymakers need to make every effort to prevent Europe's debt woes from triggering another global financial crisis, issuing his strongest warning to date of the risk posed to the world ahead of a Group of 20 summit in Cannes.

Kepco under fire for power threat

Kansai Electric Power Co. is still drawing fire for asking local governments and businesses to cut power use 15 percent this summer to help it cope with the shutdown of four nuclear reactors for inspections.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 22/1 (Vietnam Net)

A delegation of 17 companies from the Japanese city of Osaka presented advanced industrial technologies in various fields at a seminar on Jan.21, saying they saw HCM City as a place with high investment potential.

Meet Japanese Guest Chef Satoshi Hata from Osaka, Japan at The Conrad Bangkok (Thaipr.net)

Drinking Tea Eating Rice, Japanese Restaurant at The Conrad Bangkok, welcomes a Japanese Guest Chef Satoshi Hata from Japan to demonstrate his unique French-influenced Teppanyaki Cuisine, from 18th –

A Korean Japanese family's bitter 'homecoming' (Los Angeles Times)

Ethnic Korean Ko Jong-mi's family was lured from Japan to North Korea, forbidden to return, when she was a toddler. Her misery and her mother's painful regret inspired Ko to find a way back. Ko Jong-mi can still see her mother lying on her deathbed in a shabby North Korean village.

Osaka brings advanced technologies to HCMC (Việt Nam News)

HCM CITY — A delegation of 17 companies from the Japanese city of Osaka presented advanced industrial technologies in various fields at a seminar yesterday, saying they saw HCM City as a place with high investment potential.

Woodside to Select Sunrise LNG Option This Quarter (Update1) (Bloomberg)

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Woodside Petroleum Ltd. , Australia’s second-largest oil and gas producer, expects to make a decision by the end of March on how it intends to develop the Sunrise project in the Timor Sea north of Australia.

Osaka brings advanced technologies to HCM City (Vietnam Net)

VietNamNet Bridge – A delegation of 17 companies from the Japanese city of Osaka presented advanced industrial technologies in various fields at a seminar yesterday, January 21, saying they saw HCM City as a place with high investment potential.

New art horizons seen from Kansai (The Japan Times)

While the progression of Japanese art within the last decade is being celebrated at the "Garden of Painting" exhibition at The National Museum of Art in Osaka, other galleries in the area, such as the Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, and the YOD Gallery, Osaka, have launched group exhibitions proposing directions for the next generation.

Osaka events celebrate art that lies under the covers (of books) (The Japan Times)

The International Book Art Picnic will be held in Osaka until Jan. 31. According to event organizer NPO Osaka Arts-Aporia, book art is a concept that includes books with beautiful covers and artistic installations using books. Artists and curators will also give lectures on the topic at a seminar in Bungei Hall of Nakanoshima Library on Jan. 23.