OSAKA—The Airin district of Osaka has a reputation as a dirty, dangerous place filled with flophouses, day laborers and undesirables. But for a 35-year-old man, the area provided a sense of ...

Scheduled to open a year and a half from now, how will the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo be remembered by posterity? The estimated construction cost has risen to 235 billion yen ($1.57 billion), or 1.9 ...