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Osaka

Florian Walch, Thomas Fend

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Content table

History Facts Problems Sights

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History

First Name „Naniwa“ Capital City (7th – 8th Century) Centre of the Buddhist Jōdō-Shin-shū – Religion

Headquarter: Temple Ishiyama-Honganji (1496) Oda Nobunaga sieged the Temple 4 years and

destroyed it (1576-1580) Toyotomi Hideyoshi built there the Castle of

Osaka (1583) Second name „Ozaka“ (Middle age – 20th

Century) Today’s name „Osaka”

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Facts

Second-largest Japanese city

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Facts (2)

Over 2,600,000 people by January 2007 Over 11,000 people/km²

Vienna: ~4000 people/km² Area of 222 km² Average temperature:

January: ~5°C

August: ~24°C Nine universities

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Transport

Kansai International Airport Artificial island offshore (60 km)

Osaka International Airport Mostly domestic flights

Subway Railroad

Both private and public lines Bus

Not recommended – better use trains

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Economy In the middle age centre of the Japanese

economy Today the big companies has there

headquarters in Tokyo Basic position of the sea access to Korea and

China After the bubble economy:

lots of insolvencies high unemployment Foreign investors displace

Expo (1970)

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Economy (2)

Sharp Electronics manufacturer

Matsushita Electronics manufacturer

Mitsubishi Pharma Part of the Mitsubishi group

West Japan Railroad Company Shinkansen high speed train

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Sports

Two major league football teams Gamba Osaka Cerenzo Osaka

Common Japanese sports like Sumo Judo

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Problems

Increasing rate of homeless people Suicides Smog

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Sights

Castle Osaka (16th Century)

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Shitennoji - pagoda

„The Tower of Life“

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Sources

http://www.miprox.de/Sonstiges/Japan_gehts_gut.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka http://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/lp/prj/obd/exp/

de1513552.htm http://www.japan-travel-guide.de/

japanosaka.html