Osaka, Japan — Alyse Sugahara gripped a beer ... “It’s less common to meet Black people that aren’t alternative in Japan,” she said. “People came to Japan for that level of safety.

OSAKA, Japan — Alyse Sugahara gripped a beer as she walked past the break-dancers in her black leather jacket ... outposts where “regular Japanese people don’t really go,” she said.

“That some people have said we as athletes should ... U.S. protests which sparked outrage for its depiction of black Americans. Osaka retweeted the video with a GIF expressing bewilderment.

People in Osaka have welcomed the news, pointing back to memories of when the city first hosted a World Expo in 1970. But organizers are facing questions about the event's huge cost. On November ...