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  2. Osaka - Wikipedia

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    Oosaka. Osaka ( Japanese: 大阪市, Hepburn: Ōsaka-shi, pronounced [oːsakaɕi]; commonly just 大阪, Ōsaka [oːsaka] ⓘ) is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan ( Tokyo -Osaka- Nagoya ). It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third-most ...

  3. Billiken - Wikipedia

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    Billiken. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of November 7, 1909, the Billiken sketch at the left is by Florence Pretz and the drawing of Pretz is by journalist Marguerite Martyn. The Billiken is a charm doll created by an American art teacher and illustrator, Florence Pretz of Kansas City, Missouri, who is said to have seen the mysterious figure ...

  4. Osaka University - Wikipedia

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    Osaka University (大阪大学, Ōsaka daigaku), abbreviated as OU or Handai (阪大), is a national research university in Osaka, Japan.The university traces its roots back to Edo-era institutions Tekijuku (1838) and Kaitokudo (1724), and was officially established in 1931 as the sixth of the Imperial Universities in Japan, with two faculties: science and medicine.

  5. List of largest Japanese companies - Wikipedia

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    2022 Forbes list. This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies.The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking.

  6. Tetsuo Najita - Wikipedia

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    In 1969, Najita joined the University of Chicago faculty, and was later named a Robert S. Ingersolll Distinguished Service Professor in History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations. [10] Over the course of his career, Najita received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981, [11] and was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993. [12]

  7. Osaka University of Commerce - Wikipedia

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    The origin was founded in 1928 as Osaka Joto School of Commerce (大阪城東商業学校) by Noboru Tanioka (谷岡登, 1894–1974). This was a five-year school for boys (for ages 12–17 or above). In 1934 the school was hit by Typhoon Muroto, and the school building was rebuilt with reinforced concrete in 1935 (Tanioka Memorial Hall today).

  8. List of school massacres by death toll - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of school massacres by death toll. School massacres # Name Date Year Location Country Killed Injured W Perpetrator Terroristic organisations act Fate of perpetrator(s) Ref. 1. Santa María School massacre Dec 21 1907 Iquique Chile 2,000 ? F Chilean Army No 300 killed 2. Beslan school siege Sep 1 2004 Beslan, North Ossetia-Alania Russia 333 783 FME Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of ...

  9. List of universities in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japanese Red Cross Toyota College of Nursing. Kinjo Gakuin University. Meijo University. Nagoya Bunri University. Nagoya City University. Nagoya College of Music. Nagoya Gakuin University. Nagoya Institute of Technology. Nagoya Ryujo Women's University.