The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by the 1900s, Osaka was the industrial hub in the Meiji and Taisho periods.
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The large numbers of increasingly larger keyhole-shaped Kofun mounds found in the plains of Osaka are evidence of political-power concentration, leading to the formation of a state.
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The city now known as Osaka was at this time referred to as Naniwa, and this name and derivations of it are still in use for districts in central Osaka such as Naniwa and Namba.
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Merchants in Osaka thus began to organize storehouses where they would store a daimyos rice in exchange for a fee, trading it for either coin or a form of receipt; essentially a precursor to paper money.
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Osaka Osaka then fell back on a project that included the suppression of the 24 wards of Osaka, thus dividing the city into 5 new special districts with a status similar to that of the 23 Special wards of Tokyo.
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Central Osaka looking north from the Abeno Harukas observation deck.
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Central Osaka is roughly divided into downtown and uptown areas known as Kita and Minami.
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In October 2018, the city of Osaka officially ended its sister city relationship with San Francisco in the United States after the latter permitted a monument memorializing "comfort women" to remain on a city-owned property, circulating in the process a 10-page, 3,800-word letter in English addressed to San Francisco mayor London Breed.
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On March 18,2012, the city of Osaka decided as largest shareholder of Kansai Electric Power Co, that at the next shareholders-meeting in June 2012 it would demand a series of changes:.
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Historically, Osaka was the center of commerce in Japan, especially in the middle and pre-modern ages.
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Greater Osaka has an extensive network of railway lines, comparable to that of Greater Tokyo.
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In recent years, Osaka has started to garner more attention from foreigners with the increased popularity of cooking and dining in popular culture.
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