Annotated Bibliography

"Baseball Club's Victory Would Boost Japanese Economy by Over 250 Billion Yen." Kyodo
News International.

The Hanshin Tigers are expected to play a role in the boosting of the Japanese economy
by over 250 yen. Osaka as well as Tokyo are backing on the club team to win the Central
League Pennant. The team is not playing for money, however economists project that
tourists and a vast majority of the population will spend money celebrating in restaurants
as well as purchasing team apparel. However with the high projection of the economy,
some store owners are limiting who they let into thier stores, for safety and secruity
reasons.

Belson, Ken. "Osaka." New York Times, Oct 09, 2005, Late Edition (East Coast).
http://search.proquest.com/docview/433190916?accountid=9793.

The Hotel New Otani Osaka serves as a Central Business District and a major tourist
attraction. This data base provides the reader with an insight to one of the many unique
possibilities that lye in store in this central business district of Osaka. The hotel lies just
outside of a variety of restraunts and businesses, which help form the small, yet effective
Central Business District in Osaka. This source also expressed the concept of diffusion
of the english language, as it explains that the English language is spoken throught the
Hotel for those tourists who need to be aided.

Britannica School, s.v. "Osaka-Kobe metropolitan
http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/108766.

The metropolitan area of Kobe and Osaka is viewed as the urban as well as industrial
area in Japan. Because Japan is divided into different regions, Osaka is located in the
Hanshin Industrial Zone. This area of Japan is best known for it's impact in providing
industrial services to Japan, while the Kansai region is referred to as the more political
and religious area of Japan. In this region of Kansai, you are more likely to find temples
and shrines, as opposed to factories and smoke stacks.

Charles Wolf Jr. writing in aug. 1989 in the wall street journal on japan's likely economic decline
during the next decade. (2014, Jan 16).
Wall Street Journal (Online) Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1477832816?accountid=9793

Osaka, Japan has it's own unique and diverse personality that is shared among it's people
and the city itself. The data base "ProQuest" explains to us that Osaka has it's own
economic personality as well. Japan has a unique economy, as indicated during the
period of 1979 to 1984. During this 5 year period, Japan saw a major economic down
fall, which ultimately led to the vanishing of their "legendary" saving rate. The fall of
this saving rate can be traced back to the ages of the non-working and working
population. The low ratio both of the aged (over 64) and young (under 19) to the
working-age population also had relative absence from the Japanese population has
tended to boost aggregate saving rates.

Fusae, O. (2000). 'Omoroi' osaka. Japan Quarterly, 47(3), 25-32.
There are a variety of geographic features that play a part in binding Osaka, Japan with
it's prefecture. The article from this data base gives us a look as to how the geography of
Osaka connects the city itself, to it's prefectures which act as the city's tourist hub.
Osaka's Prefecture is a little west of the center of the Japanese archipelago. The
prefecture is bounded by the Osaka Bay on the west, and by mountains on the north, east
and south. The distinct characteristics of Osaka's geographic features serve as a
connector so to speak, for tourists to have access to the city, as well as the prefecture it
self.

Governor Hoshimoto annoucing he will resign from Governor to run for Mayor. Photograph.
October 22, 2011. http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ2011102215504.

Toru Hashimoto, who at this time was the governor of the Osaka Prefecture, announced
to the media and the public that he would be resigning to run for mayor. Hashimoto says
that his reasoning behind resigning as governor is because he "has passion for Osaka, and
he cannot keep it in any longer."

"Higashi-Osaka," Britannica School, s.v. accessed May 9, 2014,
http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/40392..

The city of Higashi, Osaka is located to the east of Osaka. Britannica data base expresses
that Higashi was established in 1967 due to the combination of three towns. Fuse,
Kawachi, and Hiraoka all merged together to create this central business district, as well
as residential suburb. Higashi features a variety of manufacturers, as well as job
opportunities. The well known city includes job opportunities in fields such
as producetion of electric appliances, machinery, clothing fibres, and paper. To go along
with thier unique central business district, Higashi also features a residential suburb at the
foot of Mount Ikoma. Located just outside of the city, people that live in this residential
suburb are provided easy access to the variety of job opportunities presented to them by
Higashi.

Hiro. Japanes Population. Photograph. October 5, 2010.
http://p08037.blogspot.com/2010/10/japan-population.html.

I am a big fan of this circle graph. The image provides us with a breakdown in regards to
the population not just in Osaka, but in Japan as a whole. We can observe that Osaka
holds the second largest population in Japan, with 8.8 million people living there. In first
is Tokyo with a population of nearly 12.6 million people.

Hogue, William R. Sanko Shrine - Osaka. Photograph. May 24, 2012.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Sanko-shrine-osaka-tunnel.jpg.
The Sanko Shrine, located on top of Mount Senada, was once said to connect the top of
this mountain with the Osaka Castle by means of underground tunnel. On the site of this
shrine is also a statue of Sanada Yukimura, a Japanese samurai who took part in
defending Osaka suring the Osaka Seige.

Hulme, D. C. (1996). Osaka ready for the spotlight. Japan Quarterly, 43(4), 82.
Osaka, Japan and it's population have their own unique personalities. This article from
the Japan Quarterly on ProQuest explains that Osaka was once Japan's capital (1,350
years ago). However now that Tokyo has come to power as Japan's most focused city,
Osaka is now seen as the focal point only for the Kansai region. Osaka now works to
attract tourists with their not only their historical landmarks, but their modern business
buildings as well. Business savy tourists are heavily targeted in Osaka, as they look to
enhance thier economic activity.

Ito, Y., Nakayama, T., Tsukuma, H., Miyashiro, I., Ioka, A., Sugimoto, T., & Rachet, B. (2012).
Role of age and tumour stage in the temporal pattern of 'cure' from stomach cancer: A
population-based study in Osaka, Japan. Cancer Epidemiology,36(2), 128-32.
doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2011.12.008

Although the population of Osaka is at a whopping 8 million at this point in time, a large
percentage of the population was lost during the period of time from 1975 to 1980. Of
the 50% percent that were diagnosed with the cancer in 1975, it is estimated that only 13-
15% were cured. The population of males that were affected by this cancer was said to
be at around 40%, while the women's numbers were only 13%. However as time went
on, and Osaka became more technologically enhacned, patients were diagnosed and aided
quicker, nursing the population back to good health.

Le Du, Stefan. Dotomborigawa river in Osaka, Japan, at night. Photograph. July 11, 2008.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dotombori_gawa_Osaka_Japan.jpg.

Osaka utilizes it's access to their greatest natural resource which is water. In this case,
the Dotomborigawa River, which runs through Osaka, is used both as a means of
transportation and a tourist attraction, offering rides to tourists through the city to site see.


Moji, Shin. Meimon Taiyo Ferry. Photograph. June 22, 2010.
http://www.travelserver.net/travelpage/ubb-
bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=next_topic&f=14&t=000719&go=newer.

This ferry is used to provide transportation to people in Osaka and has been used since
1992. This makes the Ferry Osaka the oldest and still opperational ferry in all of Japan.

N/A. "Minami." www.osaka-info.jp. http://www.osaka-info.jp/en/area/minami.html.
Minami, Osaka is one of the two neighborhookds provided to citizens in Osaka. Minami
has it's own unique personality, as it is best described as the shopping neighborhood in
Osaka. There are a variety of shops, markets, and on site interactive tourist attractions to
catch the eye of the everyday person.

Osaka Prefecture Government Building. Photograph. November 12, 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WTC01s3200.jpg.

In this image you will see the government building of Osaka's prefecture. Here is where
the prefecture of Osaka makes their own executive decisions in regards to what goes on
not in Osaka, but in it's prefectural zone.

Price, C. (2008, Dec 12). Commentary: Giant Buddha Rules Kamakura.

http://search.proquest.com/docview/259463442?accountid=9793

Although Osaka is a city centered around religion, they hold possession of some major
Buddhist artifacts and shrines, one of the more unique being the Buddhist Goddess of
Mercy. The wooden statue was crafted in 721, however for unknown reasons, it was
tossed into a sea near Osaka, left to only be found 15 years later. Now, the towering 30
foot statue sits in Kamakura, allowing tourists to visit the statue, as well as the temple
that was constructed to go along with the shrine.

Tenmangu Shrine. Photograph. japan-guide.com. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4024.html.

The Tenmangu Shrine in Osaka, Japan was founded in 949 AD. The shrine was built in
Osaka, however when it started to wither away the people of Osaka took it into their own
hands to rebuild/replenish the shrine. Now, this location is also used to hold the annual
Tenjin Festival.