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Osaka (Japanese: 大阪市, Hepburn: Ōsaka-shi, pronounced; commonly just 大阪, Ōsaka ⓘ) is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan.It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third-most populous city in Japan, following the special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama.
Ayuchi is the original form of the name Aichi, and the Fujimae tidal flat, now a protected area, is all that remains of the earlier Ayuchi-gata. It became Aichi (愛知)→ love knowledge. Akita: 秋田県: Akita-ken (秋田県) means "autumn rice paddy". It was aita or akita, meaning wetland, good place for a rice crop. Aomori: 青森県
Osaka or Ōsaka is a Japanese surname that may refer to Go Osaka (逢坂 剛, born 1943), Japanese writer; Hiroshi Ōsaka (逢坂 浩司, 1963–2007), Japanese animator, character designer and illustrator; Mari Osaka (born 1996), Japanese tennis player, sister of Naomi; Masaaki Osaka (大坂 正明), Japanese Communist
Place names in Okinawa Prefecture are drawn from the traditional Ryukyuan languages. Many place names use the unique languages names, while other place names have both a method of reading the name in Japanese and a way to read the name in the traditional local language. The capital city Naha is Naafa in the Okinawan language.
The Old Book of Tang (舊唐書), one of the Twenty-Four Histories, stated that the Japanese envoy disliked his country's name Woguo (Chinese) (倭國), and changed it to Nippon (日本), or "Origin of the Sun". Another 8th-century chronicle, True Meaning of Shiji (史記正義), however, states that the first female Chinese Emperor Wu Zetian ...
Osaka and Kyoto Prefectures are referred to as fu (府, pronounced when a separate word but when part of the full name of a prefecture, e.g. [kʲoꜜːto] and become [kʲoːtoꜜɸɯ]). The Classical Chinese character from which this is derived implies a core urban zone of national importance.
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 is the second-most densely populated, below only Tokyo.
Osaka (surname), a Japanese surname; Ayumu Kasuga, character from Azumanga Daioh, nicknamed "Osaka" Mari Osaka, a Haitian-Japanese, retired tennis player and fashion designer born in Osaka, Japan; Naomi Osaka, a Haitian-Japanese, professional tennis player born in Osaka, Japan; All pages with titles beginning with Osaka