In the past, the district was a hotbed of worker unrest and occasional riots. In 1966, it was rebranded Airin ("love your neighbor"), but despite the name change it had a reputation as a crime ...

Police in Osaka have arrested a 79-year-old man on suspicion of selling DVDs with obscene content in the Airin district in Nishinari Ward. According to police, Tatsumo Ikeyama was arrested at around 6 ...

Mr. Seiji Terakawa, Associate Professor of Kindai University, discusses why the Airin district, Osaka, Japan, has a uniqueness in its background history and tell us what triggered local government to ...

OSAKA -- On a wintry night at the end of 2020, a man walks along a mainly deserted street in the Airin district of Osaka's Nishinari Ward in western Japan, an area known for its day laborers. In ...

However, if you're going to Japan soon, there's a little-discussed city that should be on everyone's itinerary, from the ...

Supporters of homeless individuals clashed with police and court officials enforcing an eviction order Sunday at a former labor welfare center in the Airin district of the city of Osaka’s ...

May 26, 2016 08:00:00 The scenery that I stayed at the cheap hotel in Nishinari-ku, Osaka-shi "Airin district" Several things I heard from the next building "In the middle of the night," Picking ...

OSAKA -- The Airin district in the western Japanese city of Osaka has long provided housing for poor workers, but as more and more tourists come to the city to take advantage of its cheap ...

OSAKA—The Airin district of Osaka has a reputation as a dirty, dangerous place filled with flophouses, day laborers and undesirables.

Minoru Yamada, who moved to the Airin district of Osaka in 1973. He once worked as a day laborer and is now chairman of Kamagasaki Shien Kiko, a private organization that helps laborers. (New York ...