“In Japan, people from the Kansai region around Osaka are seen as friendly, progressive…and very commercial”, says Toyonori Takahashi. And as the Group Kansai Representative for ORIX Group and an Osaka native himself, he should know.

The Kansai region of Western Japan is known for its entrepreneurial spirit and commercial culture. It is, then, apt that Osaka, Kansai’s biggest city, will be the home of the country’s first integrated resort (IR), which is a group of faci…

Osaka’s city center is going big and going green. This September marked the opening of the first phase of GRAND GREEN OSAKA, a massive urban redevelopment project centered on the Umekita district just north of Japan Railway’s ‘Osaka Statio…

Less than two hours by train or car from metropolitan Tokyo, nestled in the Hakone mountains, sits Hakone Gora KARAKU (KARAKU). This is an onsen resort, a classic Japanese inn, with all that this implies in terms of privacy, a traditional …