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29-552: It was registered by Osaka Prefecture in 1873 with Hamadera Park in Nishi-ku, Sakai , and is the oldest park in Osaka. 34°36′45″N 135°29′19″E  /  34.61240°N 135.48848°E  / 34.61240; 135.48848 This Osaka Prefecture location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Osaka Prefecture Osaka Prefecture ( 大阪府 , Ōsaka-fu , pronounced [oːsaka ɸɯ] )

58-433: A city designated by government ordinance and thereby divided into 24 wards . Sakai became the second city in the prefecture to be promoted to a city designated by government ordinance on April 1, 2006, and was divided into seven wards. In 2000, Fusae Ota became Japan's first female governor when she replaced Knock Yokoyama , who resigned after prosecution for sexual harassment . Tōru Hashimoto , previously famous as

87-500: A Kansai region-wide group but has also won support from the government, through technology and material support from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and financial support from NEDO. The Osaka Securities Exchange , specializing in derivatives such as Nikkei 225 Futures, is based in Osaka. There are many electrical, chemical, pharmaceutical, heavy industry, food, and housing companies in Osaka Prefecture. According to

116-521: A counselor on television, was elected in 2008 at the age of 38, becoming the youngest governor in Japan. On June 18, 2018, an earthquake struck the northern region of the prefecture. It killed 4 people and caused minor damage across Greater Osaka . In 2010, the Osaka Restoration Association was created with backing by Governor Tōru Hashimoto, with hopes of reforming Osaka Prefecture into

145-424: Is One" ( 堺はひとつ , Sakai wa hitotsu ) . This was the first time in the party's history that a candidate had lost a mayoral election. Takeyama received 50.69% of the vote, almost 7% more than in 2009. In 2015, with Hashimoto as Mayor of Osaka city and Matsui as Governor of Osaka Prefecture, the party promoted a merger plan that, if successful, would see the relationship between the 24 municipalities of Osaka and

174-460: Is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu . Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 (as of 1 April 2022 ) and has a geographic area of 1,905 square kilometres (736  sq mi ). Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara Prefecture to the southeast, and Wakayama Prefecture to the south. Osaka

203-543: Is a regional political party in Osaka Prefecture , Japan . Founded in 2010 by then- Governor Tōru Hashimoto , its main platform is pursuing the Osaka Metropolis plan of merging the prefecture and some of its cities into "One Osaka", reducing overlapping bureaucratic organizations of the prefecture and the city of Osaka , towards Dōshūsei . The party is a major force in the politics within Osaka Prefecture, with

232-504: Is the capital and largest city of Osaka Prefecture, and the third-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Sakai , Higashiōsaka , and Hirakata . Osaka Prefecture is located on the western coast of the Kii Peninsula , forming the western is open to Osaka Bay . Osaka Prefecture is the third-most-populous prefecture, but by geographic area the second-smallest; at 4,600 inhabitants per square kilometre (12,000/sq mi) it

261-559: Is the second-most densely populated , below only Tokyo . Osaka Prefecture is one of Japan's two " urban prefectures " using the designation fu (府) rather than the standard ken for prefectures, along with Kyoto Prefecture. Osaka Prefecture forms the center of the Keihanshin metropolitan area, the second-most-populated urban region in Japan after the Greater Tokyo area and one of the world's most productive regions by GDP . Prior to

290-527: The Chongryon and classes for ethnic Koreans had opened in the prefecture. During the Japanese rule of Korea many ethnic Koreans came to the Osaka area to look for work. Many people from Jeju came to the Osaka area after a 1922 ferry line between Osaka and Jeju opened. During World War II Japanese authorities forced additional ethnic Koreans to move to the Osaka area. Public elementary and junior high schools in

319-698: The Japan Restoration Association , also headed by Hashimoto and Matsui, was founded in 2012 it was announced that the Osaka organization would come under the umbrella of the national party. In the Sakai city mayoral election held in September 2013, incumbent Osami Takeyama ran as an independent (with the support of the Liberal Democratic Party and an endorsement from the Komeito party) and defeated

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348-461: The 2005 Population Census of Japan, Osaka prefecture has a population of 8,817,166, an increase of 12,085, or 0.14%, since the Census of year 2000. As of 2022 this prefecture has about 93,000 ethnic Korean persons , the largest such population of any prefecture in Japan. Osaka City . As of 2013 most ethnic Korean children attend ordinary Japanese public schools, although some Korean schools operated by

377-517: The Meiji Restoration, the modern-day area of Osaka Prefecture was split between Kawachi , Izumi , and Settsu provinces. Osaka Prefecture was created on June 21, 1868, at the very beginning of the Meiji era . During the instigation of Fuhanken Sanchisei in 1868, the prefecture received its suffix fu , designating it as a prefecture. On September 1, 1956, the city of Osaka was promoted to

406-506: The Osaka Metropolis and merging with the City of Osaka. In the 2011 local elections, the association was able to win the majority of the prefectural seats and Hashimoto was elected as mayor of Osaka. A referendum on the issue was held in 2015 and was defeated with 50.38% of voters opposed to the plan. A second referendum in 2020 was rejected by 50.6% of voters. Osaka Prefecture neighbors

435-402: The Osaka Metropolis plan and the restructuring of Japan's 47 prefectures into a few number of geographically large regions saw him face opposition from the mayors of Osaka and Sakai cities. In face of this opposition and frustrated with the lack of attention given to the issues by the major parties at the national level, Hashimoto announced his intention to form a regional party that would focus on

464-534: The Osaka Restoration Association candidate Katsutoshi Nishibayashi. Takeyama first won office in 2009 with the backing of Hashimoto (prior to the party being formed), but lost the support of the party when he changed his position regarding the Metropolis merger plan. Whilst generally in favour of reform within the prefecture, Takeyama opposed the break-up of Sakai city and had a campaign slogan of "Sakai

493-529: The betterment of Osaka. In February 2009, Hashimoto's plan for the prefecture to purchase the Osaka World Trade Center Building from the city and relocate the prefectural government offices into the building was defeated in the prefectural assembly. Following this, a faction of six assembly members led by Ichirō Matsui , who was supported by Hashimoto, formed the "Liberal Democratic Party Restoration Association" ( 自由民主党・維新の会 ) . By April 2010

522-473: The core city system in the 2020s). After the modern reactivation of districts in 1878/79, Osaka, including Sakai which was only merged into Osaka in 1881, consisted of 5 urban districts (-ku) and 27 rural districts (-gun) , excluding 15 districts in Yamato Province which was later separated from Osaka as Nara Prefecture in 1887. When the prefectures were subdivided into modern municipalities in 1889,

551-469: The five urban districts were turned into two district-independent cities: Osaka City and Sakai City, and Osaka's [rural] districts were subdivided into 12 towns and 310 villages. After Osaka City had absorbed many surrounding municipalities in the interwar/Taishō period, the number of municipalities in Osaka had already dropped to 149 by 1953. The Great Shōwa mergers of the 1950s reduced the total to 47 by 1961, including 26 cities by then. The current total of 43

580-720: The group had broken away from the Liberal Democratic Party and expanded to 22 members. On 19 April 2010 it was officially registered as the Osaka Restoration Association with 30 members. In the unified local elections in April 2011, the Osaka Restoration Association won an outright majority in the prefectural assembly and became strongest party in the assemblies of both Osaka City and Sakai City. On November 27, 2011, in an unprecedented double election, Hashimoto and Secretary-General Ichirō Matsui were elected as Mayor of Osaka City and Governor of Osaka Prefecture respectively. When

609-466: The mayoral election, Hirofumi Yoshimura , a former member of the national House of Representatives , was selected as the party's candidate to replace Hashimoto. Yoshimura ran on a platform of reinstating the metropolis merger plan and received 56.4% of the 1.05 million votes cast. In the gubernatorial election, Matsui also campaigned in favour of the merger and was re-elected with 64% of the 3.14 million votes cast. The double victory has been considered

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638-450: The other side of Osaka's economy can be characterized by its Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) activities. The number of SMEs based in Osaka in 2006 was 330,737, accounting for 99.6% of the total number of businesses in the prefecture. While this proportion is similar to other prefectures (the average nationwide was 99.7%), the manufactured output of the SMEs amounted to 65.4% of the total within

667-582: The party holding the most seats in the Osaka Prefectural Assembly , Osaka City Assembly and Sakai City Assembly, as well as the positions of Governor of Osaka and mayor of three cities within the prefecture (Osaka, Moriguchi and Hirakata ). Hashimoto, a lawyer and popular TV personality, was elected Governor of Osaka in January 2008 with the support of the local branches of the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito . However, his support for

696-631: The prefecture are operated by the municipalities. Public high schools are operated by the Osaka Prefectural Board of Education . Osaka Prefecture has sister region relationships with: The sports teams listed below are based in Osaka. The symbol of Osaka Prefecture, called the sennari byōtan or "thousand gourds", was originally the crest of Toyotomi Hideyoshi , the feudal lord of Osaka Castle . Osaka Restoration Association (1st) The Osaka Restoration Association ( 大阪維新の会 , Ōsaka Ishin no Kai ) , also referred to as One Osaka ,

725-554: The prefecture be changed to resemble that of the Tokyo metropolis and create four new semi-autonomous districts. The plan was defeated in a referendum in May 2015 by a margin of less than 1%. Following the result, Hashimoto announced he would not contest the mayoral election at the end of 2015. The party successfully contested the "double election" of the Osaka city mayoral election and prefecture gubernatorial election held on 22 November 2015. In

754-490: The prefecture, a rate significantly higher than Tokyo's 55.5%, or Kanagawa 's 38.4%. One model from Osaka of serving the public interest and restimulating the regional economy, combined with industry-education cooperation efforts, is the Astro-Technology SOHLA, with its artificial satellite project. Having originally started from a gathering of Higashiosaka based SMEs, Astro-Technology SOHLA has not only grown into

783-420: The prefectures of Hyōgo and Kyoto in the north, Nara in the east and Wakayama in the south. The Yodo and Yamato Rivers flow through the prefecture. Prior to the construction of Kansai International Airport , Osaka was the smallest prefecture in Japan. The artificial island on which the airport was built added enough area to make it slightly larger than Kagawa Prefecture . As of 1 April 2012, 11% of

812-489: The total land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks , namely Kongō-Ikoma-Kisen and Meiji no Mori Minō Quasi-National Parks and Hokusetsu and Hannan-Misaki Prefectural Natural Parks. Since 2005, Osaka consists of 43 municipalities : 33 cities , nine towns and one village . As of 2021, the 33 cities include two designated major cities , seven core cities and two (transitional) special case cities (after legal abolition in 2015, to be replaced with

841-583: Was reached during the Great Heisei mergers in 2005. The gross prefecture product of Osaka for the fiscal year 2004 was ¥38.7 trillion, second after Tokyo with an increase of 0.9% from the previous year. This represented approximately 48% of the Kinki region. The per capita income was ¥3.0 million, seventh in the nation. Commercial sales the same year was ¥60.1 trillion. Overshadowed by such globally renowned electronics giants as Panasonic and Sharp ,

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