A waterway connecting Kyoto and Osaka Bay, long closed for flood control, reopened Sunday as Japanese transport authorities began operating a lock on the Yodo River. The water route between the major ...

OSAKA--Endangered Japanese eels are thriving in a seemingly unlikely spot, the Dotonborigawa river that runs through the city’s busy Minami entertainment district. Eels were caught there for the ...

MINOO, Osaka Prefecture--More than a century ago, the "kawadoko" riverside dining experience along the Minoogawa river, which flows from the famed Minoo Otaki waterfall here, was a popular ...