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OSAKA (oh-SAW-kuh)
Third
largest Japanese city
Common
clues: Honshu port; City near Kobe; 1970 World's Fair site;
Japanese port; Japan's second largest city; Bay of Japan,
Industrious Japanese city
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Osaka
City is
the third-largest city in Japan, with a population of 2.7
million. However, its day time (9am~5pm) population is second in
Japan after Tokyo. It is located on the main island of Honshu, at
the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay. The city is one of
Japan's major industrial centers and ports, as well as the
capital of Osaka Prefecture and a central part of the
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area which has a population of 16.6
million. It is part of the Kansai region.
History
Osaka
city was named originally Naniwa
and appears in early
Japanese historical documents. Emperor Kōtoku made this area
his capital, and named it Naniwa-no-miya (The Capital of Naniwa).
It has always been a vital connection, by land and sea, between
Yamato (modern day Nara Prefecture), Korea, and China. Settsu,
a former province of Japan, consisted of the northern part of
modern Osaka prefecture and the seaside part of Hyogo Prefecture.
In
1496 the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist sect set up their headquarters,
the heavily fortified Ishiyama Honganji temple, in Ishiyama,
today a part of Osaka. In 1576, Oda Nobunaga started a siege of
the temple that went on to last for four years. The monks finally
surrendered in 1580, the temple was razed and Toyotomi Hideyoshi
took the place for his own castle, Osaka Castle.
Osaka
was called Ōzaka
from the middle ages
until the pre-modern period. In the beginning of Meiji Era the
government renamed the city to Ōsaka,
which remains its name today. In those days Osaka was the second
largest city of Japan and economically the most important,
because most of the important markets, rice, exchange and so on
were there.
The
modern city was designated on September 1, 1956 by government
ordinance.
Demography
As
of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 2,624,129 and
the density of 11,857.79 persons per square kilometre. The total
area is 221.30 km².
The
people of Osaka speak a dialect of standard Japanese called
Osaka-ben,
characterized, most prominently amongst other particularities, by
the use of the suffix hen
instead of nai
in the negative of
verbs.
Osaka
people are considered by other Japanese to be rowdy and
boisterous with a robust and coarse sense of humor, befitting
people engaged in the commercial life of the region. Compare to
American stereotypes of New Yorkers.
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article "Osaka, Osaka".
OSAKA
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Tu >1 00 Honshu city CHIBA KYOTO
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We- >1 04 Japanese city KYOTO OTARU
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We+ >1 01 City near Kobe
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We- >1 08 Japanese industrial center
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We- >1 07 Honshu seaport AKITA
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Th >1 01 1970 World's Fair site
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Th- >1 04 Expo '70 site
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Th >1 05 City east of Kobe
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Th LAT 02 City ESE of Kobe
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Tu >1 09 City of southern Honshu
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Tu >1 08 Honshu metropolis TOKYO
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Fr- NYS 04 Honshu prefecture
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We CSy 04 It has close connections with Kobe
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We- >1 04 Japan's "City of Water"
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Th- >1 00 Japan's second largest city
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Japan's second-biggest city
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We CSy 99 Japan's third largest city
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Th- >1 03 Japanese port city
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Japanese seaport OTARU
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We- >1 03 Kobe's bay
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We NYT 08 Pitcher Hideo Nomo's birthplace
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Sa >1 06 Prefecture of Japan
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Second-largest city in Japan
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We CSy 98 "Venice of the Orient"
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Tu- >1 08 Queen of Mount Olympus
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