Ōsaka 17th district (大阪府第17区, Ōsaka-fu daijuunanaku or 大阪17区, Ōsaka-juunanaku) is a single-member electoral district of the House of Representatives, the...

legislature), currently for the Osaka 17th district. Baba was born in Sakai city, Osaka in 1965, and graduated Osaka Prefectural Ōtori High School. In...

24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It has an area of 8.88 km2, and a population of 60,085. It houses Osaka's financial district, as well as the Osaka Prefecture...

the Osaka Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is divided between the Osaka 15th district, Osaka 16th district and Osaka 17th districts...

multi-member districts and single-member districts, a method called Parallel voting. Currently, 176 members are elected from 11 multi-member districts (called...

created during the early 17th century by the Tokugawa shogunate, alongside Shimabara in Kyoto in 1640 and Shinmachi in Osaka. Created by the shogunate...

Politics of Osaka, as in all 47 prefectures of Japan, takes place in the framework of local autonomy that is guaranteed by chapter 8 of the Constitution...

to major trade centers such as Osaka, for a price. However, increasing supply and demand towards the end of the 17th century necessitated a better method...

a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed in the modern day. Three...

produced by Yasushi Akimoto. NMB48 is named after the Namba district in Osaka city of Osaka Prefecture, where the group is based. The group performs at...

Kobe Timeline of Kyoto Timeline of Nagasaki Timeline of Nagoya Timeline of Osaka Timeline of Tokyo; and History of Tokyo, with "significant events" sections...

leaned toward the arts and pleasure districts. Ihara Saikaku was born in 1642 into a well-off merchant family in Osaka. From the age of fifteen he composed...

jinta mai, the latter style having its origins in the pleasure districts of Kyoto and Osaka. The mai style is reserved and typified by circling movements...

character of Edo, particularly in contrast to the two major cities of Kyoto and Osaka, neither of which were ruled by a daimyō or had a significant samurai population...

Chinese empire. At first, these generals gathered at Kiyomasa's mansion in Osaka Castle, and from there they moved into Mitsunari's mansion. However, Mitsunari...

the 17th century, the ninja faded into obscurity. A number of shinobi manuals, often based on Chinese military philosophy, were written in the 17th and...

"Hori" Horibata - First district representative of Camarines Sur (2022–) Osaka Bazaar in Manila, Philippines (1934) Shoppers crowd Osaka Bazar during a Christmas...

Tokyo's (and Japan's) predominant financial district. The Nihonbashi bridge first became famous during the 17th century, when it was the eastern terminus...

printmaking that developed in the late 17th century, at first depicting the entertainments of the pleasure districts of Edo, such as courtesans and kabuki...

in karate as Zimbabwe's Samson Muripo became Kyokushin world champion in Osaka, Japan in 2009. Muripo is a two-time World Kyokushi Karate Champion and...

sustained minor damage in Awara. Two injuries were also reported each in Osaka and Hyōgo Prefectures, while one person each was injured in Gifu and Nagano...

Sapporo District Court of Japan declared and announced that the 1984 law banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. However, in June 2022, the Osaka District...

"Ōsaka no onna" (大阪の女, Woman from Ōsaka) Debut Single Released: July 28, 1999 Oricon top 200 position: #45 48,000 "Kaihōku" (解放区, Liberated District)...

internet watchdog TV show concentrating on NHK in 2011. He worked briefly in Osaka for the once-Democratic Party representative Hiroyuki Moriyama, before becoming...

about 5 km north of Osaka Itami Airport. It is bordered on the west by the Inagawa river. Hyōgo Prefecture Itami Takarazuka Inagawa Osaka Prefecture Ikeda...

cities of Shimonoseki, Fukuoka, and Osaka on Japan's mainland. PanStar operates the PanStar Ferry between Busan and Osaka. The Seaflower 2, the ferry to Tsushima...

famous of these were Yoshiwara in Edo (present-day Tokyo), Shinmachi in Osaka, and Shimabara in Kyoto. Pleasure quarters were walled and guarded for taxation...

as Jusco and Saty under the Aeon name. In 2021, Aeon was reportedly the 17th largest retailer in the world in terms of revenue. The name Aeon is a transliteration...

would remain for the next 200 years of the village's history. By the mid-17th century, descendants of Sephardic Jews were settling on the Hempstead Plains...

to destroy it. For ten years, he laid siege to the Ishiyama Hongan-ji in Osaka, one of the two primary temple fortresses of the sect. In 1580, the abbot...