Osaka Prefecture

The Osaka prefecture (Japanese大阪 府Ōsaka -fu ) is a prefecture of Japan. It is located in the Kinki region on Honshu island. Seat of the prefectural government is the city of Osaka.

History

The Osaka prefecture was established in 1868 as the successor of the former Shōgunatsverwaltung for the city of Osaka ( Osaka -machi - Bugyo ). After the abolition of the Han, the fiefs of the feudal period, in 1871, it included roughly the northern third of its current territory. 1881 annexed the Osaka Prefecture Sakai Prefecture, her territory expanded to the present territory of the present-day Nara Prefecture and additionally from which was finally isolated in 1887 from Osaka.

Geography

Bay of Osaka

Politics and Administration

  • Osaka Ishin no Kai: 55
  • Kōmeitō: 21
  • LDP: 14
  • DPJ: 9
  • JCP: 4
  • Minna: 1
  • Fumin Club: 1

At the top of Osaka prefectural government is directly elected every four years as governor in all prefectures. Governor of Osaka since early elections in 2011 Ichirō Matsui, Secretary General of the Osaka Ishin no Kai, which emerged with 57 seats as well as the strongest party in the 109 -member Parliament Prefecture of the regional elections in April 2011. Matsui succeeded his party chairman Tōru Hashimoto, who resigned for his (successful ) candidacy for the mayoral election in the city of Osaka and now is also active in national politics with the Nippon Ishin no Kai.

The Osaka Ishin no Kai wants of reforming the administrative structure of the prefecture fundamentally: The " regierungsdesignierten cities " Osaka and Sakai, and possibly other surrounding communities are (including their assets ) rise in the prefecture administration, a prefecture like Tokyo would as Osaka -to, in of the area of the dissolved cities is divided into " special districts " ( tokubetsu -ku ), which are then available in addition to the other cities and towns and are directly prefecture. Despite the defeat of the Ishin candidates in the 2013 mayoral election in the city of Sakai against the incumbent Mayor Takeyama, who has turned against the union plans, Hashimoto wants to hold on Osaka -to- plan.

Although with a " financial strength index " ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) of less than 0.8 part of Osaka for the financially strongest of the four groups of prefectures, have been assigned by the central government financial equalization tax, but is not largely to contest in a position such as Tokyo and Aichi its own budget.

In the national parliament Osaka is represented by 19 directly elected members in the House and is currently seventh in the House of Lords. The 19 lower house constituencies elected in 2012 twelve Members of the Nippon Ishin no Kai and four of the Kōmeitō - the two parties had a regional cooperation agreement - that the Liberal Democrats were able to win only three constituencies, the Democrats do not. For the Upper House Osaka in 2013 four instead of three hitherto mandate constituency since the upper house election, is thus represented temporarily out of seven, in 2016 by eight deputies. After the elections of 2010 and 2013 are the two members of the LDP and Kōmeitō and one representative each of Ishin no Kai, JCP and DPJ.

Administrative divisions

Independent cities (市shi )

  • Seirei shitei toshi ( " Regierungsdesignierte cities " ) Osaka, the seat of the prefectural government
  • Sakai
  • HigashiOsaka
  • Takatsuki
  • Hirakata
  • Ibaraki
  • Kishiwada
  • Neyagawa
  • Suita
  • Toyonaka
  • Yao
  • Other county-level cities Daitō
  • Fujiidera
  • Habikino
  • Hannan
  • Ikeda
  • Izumi
  • Izumiōtsu
  • Izumisano
  • Kadoma
  • Kaizuka
  • Kashiwara
  • Katano
  • Kawachinagano
  • Matsubara
  • Mino
  • Moriguchi
  • Osakasayama
  • Sennan
  • Settsu
  • Shijonawate
  • Takaishi
  • Tondabayashi

Counties (郡, gun)

List of districts of Osaka Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, chō ) and villages (村, mura ).

  • Minamikawachi Chihaya - Akasaka
  • Kanan
  • Taishi
  • Mishima Shimamoto
  • Tadaoka
  • Sennan Kumatori
  • Misaki
  • Tajiri
  • Toyono Nose
  • Toyono

Traffic

Osaka -fu has 3 major airports

  • Kansai airport
  • Airport Itami and
  • Yao airport

Umeda Sky Building

Center of Osaka

City ​​Hall

Tomb of the Emperor Nintoku in Sakai

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