In a significant crackdown on a large-scale money laundering operation, the Osaka Prefectural Police have requested the freezing of approximately 1,300 bank accounts allegedly misused by a ...

MUFG Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp ... retained both the office of prefectural governor and city mayor in Osaka on Sunday. Japan’s casino plans have faced a number of obstacles such ...

The accounts were opened in financial institutions throughout Japan ... In Osaka in April, a woman in her 60s received a phone call from a man claiming to be an employee of the city office.