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Baseball: Ohtani wins NL MVP

A digital news board in Osaka's Umeda area, western Japan, reports on Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani winning his third consecutive MVP award and fourth of his Major League Baseball career.

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Baseball: Ohtani wins NL MVP

A digital news board in Osaka's Umeda area, western Japan, reports on Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani winning his third consecutive MVP award and fourth of his Major League Baseball career.

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Press Conference Regarding the Management Integration of Chiba Bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank

Press conference regarding the business integration of Chiba Bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank. photo shows, from left, Tsutomu Yonemoto, President of Chiba Bank, and Hitoshi Umeda, President of Chiba Kogyo Bank.=September 29,2025,Chiba

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Press Conference Regarding the Management Integration of Chiba Bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank

Press conference regarding the business integration of Chiba Bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank. photo shows, from left, Tsutomu Yonemoto, President of Chiba Bank, and Hitoshi Umeda, President of Chiba Kogyo Bank.=September 29,2025,Chiba

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Press Conference Regarding the Management Integration of Chiba Bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank

Press conference regarding the business integration of Chiba Bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank. photo shows, from left, Tsutomu Yonemoto, President of Chiba Bank, and Hitoshi Umeda, President of Chiba Kogyo Bank.=September 29,2025,Chiba

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Press Conference Regarding the Management Integration of Chiba Bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank

Press conference regarding the business integration of Chiba Bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank. photo shows Chiba Kogyo Bank President Hitoshi Umeda.=September 29,2025,Chiba

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Press Conference Regarding the Management Integration of Chiba Bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank

Press conference regarding the business integration of Chiba Bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank. photo shows, from left, Tsutomu Yonemoto, President of Chiba Bank, and Hitoshi Umeda, President of Chiba Kogyo Bank.=September 29,2025,Chiba

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Bargain sale after Tigers' CL pennant win

Hanshin Department Store holds a ceremony kicking off a bargain sale at its flagship outlet in Osaka's Umeda district on Sept. 8, 2025, a day after the Hanshin Tigers baseball club won the Central League pennant.

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Koji Hara

TOKYO, Japan,October 29 Kyodo - Photo taken on October. 29,2018,shows Japanese Architect Koji Hara.(Kyodo)

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Japan TV host Nakai's retirement

A monitor in Osaka's Umeda area shows the news on Jan. 23, 2025, that Masahiro Nakai, a popular TV host who was a member of the former pop group SMAP and is embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal, has announced his retirement from show business.

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Japan TV host Nakai's retirement

A monitor in Osaka's Umeda area shows the news on Jan. 23, 2025, that Masahiro Nakai, a popular TV host who was a member of the former pop group SMAP and is embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal, has announced his retirement from show business.

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Japan TV host Nakai's retirement

A monitor in Osaka's Umeda area shows the news on Jan. 23, 2025, that Masahiro Nakai, a popular TV host who was a member of the former pop group SMAP and is embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal, has announced his retirement from show business.

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Baseball: Ohtani wins NL MVP

A large screen in Osaka's Umeda area shows on Nov. 22, 2024, a news report on Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani winning Major League Baseball's National League MVP award.

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3D medium “dip vision” (Umeda BS 3D Vision)

“dip Vision” (Umeda BS 3D Vision), one of the largest 3D media in Kansai, is located near Hankyu Osaka Umeda Station.=November 5,2024,Osaka

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3D medium “dip vision” (Umeda BS 3D Vision)

“dip Vision” (Umeda BS 3D Vision), one of the largest 3D media in Kansai, is located near Hankyu Osaka Umeda Station.=November 5,2024,Osaka

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GLSEN's Annual Rise Up LA Benefit Honoring Sheryl Lee Ralph

Sean Chong-Umeda At GLSEN's Annual Rise Up LA Benefit Honoring Sheryl Lee Ralph at Neuehouse Hollywood in Hollywood, CA, USA on October 18 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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GLSEN's Annual Rise Up LA Benefit Honoring Sheryl Lee Ralph

Sean Chong-Umeda At GLSEN's Annual Rise Up LA Benefit Honoring Sheryl Lee Ralph at Neuehouse Hollywood in Hollywood, CA, USA on October 18 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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GLSEN's Annual Rise Up LA Benefit Honoring Sheryl Lee Ralph

Sean Chong-Umeda At GLSEN's Annual Rise Up LA Benefit Honoring Sheryl Lee Ralph at Neuehouse Hollywood in Hollywood, CA, USA on October 18 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harvest moon

A harvest moon is seen between high-rise buildings in Osaka's Umeda area on Sept. 17, 2024.

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Harvest moon

A harvest moon is seen from Osaka's Umeda area on Sept. 17, 2024.

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Harvest moon

A harvest moon is seen from Osaka's Umeda area on Sept. 17, 2024.

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Scene of Osaka

People walk in Osaka's Umeda area on May 8, 2023. Japan downgraded the same day the legal status of COVID-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza and greatly relaxed its intensive medical rules, marking a major shift in its approach after three years of dealing with the coronavirus.

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Scene of Osaka

People walk in Osaka's Umeda area on May 8, 2023. Japan downgraded the same day the legal status of COVID-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza and greatly relaxed its intensive medical rules, marking a major shift in its approach after three years of dealing with the coronavirus.

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Scene of Osaka

People walk in Osaka's Umeda area on May 8, 2023. Japan downgraded the same day the legal status of COVID-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza and greatly relaxed its intensive medical rules, marking a major shift in its approach after three years of dealing with the coronavirus.

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Exterior, logo and signage of Osaka Institute of Technology Umeda Campus

Exterior, logo and signage of Osaka Institute of Technology Umeda Campus=Date:October 26, 2023, Place:Osaka

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Exterior, logo and signage of Osaka Institute of Technology Umeda Campus

Exterior, logo and signage of Osaka Institute of Technology Umeda Campus=Date:October 26, 2023, Place:Osaka

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N. Korea fires ICBM-class missile

A large screen in Osaka's Umeda area shows on July 12, 2023, a news report that North Korea launched what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile earlier in the day.

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N. Korea fires ICBM-class missile

Large screens in Osaka's Umeda area show on July 12, 2023, a news report that North Korea launched what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile earlier in the day.

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Scene of Osaka

People walk in Osaka's Umeda area on May 8, 2023. Japan downgraded the same day the legal status of COVID-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza and greatly relaxed its intensive medical rules, marking a major shift in its approach after three years of dealing with the coronavirus.

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Scene of Osaka

People walk in Osaka's Umeda area on May 8, 2023. Japan downgraded the same day the legal status of COVID-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza and greatly relaxed its intensive medical rules, marking a major shift in its approach after three years of dealing with the coronavirus.

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Scene of Osaka

People walk in Osaka's Umeda area on May 8, 2023. Japan downgraded the same day the legal status of COVID-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza and greatly relaxed its intensive medical rules, marking a major shift in its approach after three years of dealing with the coronavirus.

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Scene in Osaka

People walk in Osaka's Umeda area on May 8, 2023, with a roadside screen displaying the news that Japan downgraded the same day the legal status of COVID-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza and greatly relaxed its intensive medical rules.

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Air taxi VoloCity

A full-size model of the VoloCity air taxi is shown to the public at Grand Front Osaka in the Umeda business district in Osaka on March 8, 2023. The two-seater, 18-rotor aircraft made by Germany's Velocopter GmbH is an electric aircraft with the ability to take off and land vertically.

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Air taxi VoloCity

A full-size model of the VoloCity air taxi is shown to the public at Grand Front Osaka in the Umeda business district in Osaka on March 8, 2023. The two-seater, 18-rotor aircraft made by Germany's Velocopter GmbH is an electric aircraft with the ability to take off and land vertically.

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Air taxi VoloCity

A full-size model of the VoloCity air taxi is shown to the public at Grand Front Osaka in the Umeda business district in Osaka on March 8, 2023. The two-seater, 18-rotor aircraft made by Germany's Velocopter GmbH is an electric aircraft with the ability to take off and land vertically.

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COVID mask rules eased in Japan

Most people wear masks while walking in Osaka's Umeda area on March 13, 2023, although Japan eased its COVID-19 guidelines on mask-wearing the same day, with wearing now left up to individual choice.

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COVID mask rules eased in Japan

Most people wear masks while walking in Osaka's Umeda area on March 13, 2023, although Japan eased its COVID-19 guidelines on mask-wearing the same day, with wearing now left up to individual choice.

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Largest underground LED display

OSAKA, Japan, Nov. 30 Kyodo - Photo taken on Nov. 30, 2019, shows a 40-meter LED display at Umeda Station on Osaka's Midosuji subway line. Umeda Metro Vision was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest underground LED display.

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Largest underground LED display

OSAKA, Japan, Nov. 30 Kyodo - Photo taken on Nov. 30, 2019, shows a 40-meter LED display at Umeda Station on Osaka's Midosuji subway line. Umeda Metro Vision was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest underground LED display.

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Largest underground LED display

OSAKA, Japan, Nov. 30 Kyodo - Photo taken on Nov. 30, 2019, shows a 40-meter LED display at Umeda Station on Osaka's Midosuji subway line. Umeda Metro Vision was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest underground LED display.

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Car plows into pedestrians in central Osaka

OSAKA, Feb. 25 Kyodo - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows police officers examining a car after it mounted a sidewalk and plowed into pedestrians in the busy Umeda district of Osaka on Feb. 25, 2016. The crash killed the driver and a pedestrian while leaving another pedestrian in critical condition and injuring eight others.

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Car plows into pedestrians in central Osaka

OSAKA, Feb. 25 Kyodo - A car is towed after it mounted a sidewalk and plowed into pedestrians in the busy Umeda district of Osaka on Feb. 25, 2016. The crash killed the driver and a pedestrian while leaving another pedestrian in critical condition and injuring eight others.

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Windsurfers taking to Yodo River in downtown Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken in December 2014 shows Keiichi Kitamoto enjoying windsurfing on the Yodo River with skyscrapers of the downtown Umeda area in the background in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture.

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Research launched on pregnancy-induced diseases

TOKYO, Japan - Narumi Umeda (R), director of NTT Docomo Inc.'s Research Laboratories, poses with Nobuo Yaegashi, deputy executive director of Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2014, announcing the launch of a joint project to establish mobile monitoring methods for the prevention and early detection of pregnancy-induced diseases.

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New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Customers fill the second Osaka flagship store of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo on Oct. 31, 2014, as the new store in front of Hankyu Umeda Station officially opens.

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New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Customers queue in the second Osaka flagship store of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo on Oct. 31, 2014, as the new store in front of Hankyu Umeda Station officially opens.

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New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Customers enter the second Osaka flagship store of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo on Oct. 31, 2014, as the new store in front of Hankyu Umeda Station officially opens.

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New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Customers fill the second Osaka flagship store of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo on Oct. 31, 2014, as the new store in front of Hankyu Umeda Station officially opens.

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New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Customers queue outside the second Osaka flagship store of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo on Oct. 31, 2014, the day of the official opening of the new store in front of Hankyu Umeda Station.

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Fair of specialties in Tohoku region begins in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Train crew members of railway companies in six prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku pose at the start of a fair of local specialties at the Umeda flagship outlet of Hanshin Department Store in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 29, 2014.