1 Osaka Florian Walch, Thomas Fend

2 Content table History Facts Problems Sights

3 History First Name „Naniwa“ Capital City (7 th – 8 th Century) Centre of the Buddhist Jōdō-Shin-shū – Religion Headquarter: Temple Ishiyama-Honganji (1496) Oda Nobunaga sieged the Temple 4 years and destroyed it ( ) Toyotomi Hideyoshi built there the Castle of Osaka (1583) Second name „Ozaka“ (Middle age – 20 th Century) Today’s name „Osaka”

4 Facts Second-largest Japanese city

5 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

6 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

7 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)

8 Economy (2) Sharp  Electronics manufacturer Matsushita  Electronics manufacturer Mitsubishi Pharma  Part of the Mitsubishi group West Japan Railroad Company  Shinkansen high speed train

9 Sports Two major league football teams  Gamba Osaka  Cerenzo Osaka Common Japanese sports like  Sumo  Judo

10 Problems Increasing rate of homeless people Suicides Smog

11 Sights Castle Osaka (16th Century)

12 Shitennoji - pagoda „The Tower of Life“

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