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 ...

American author Rita Mae Brown once wryly observed, "If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done." As a current example of that axiom, Asahi Geino (March 20) offers a hazard map of ...