LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.city.osaka.jp/

Population:
2,624,129 (2003)

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Company	Founded
Nissin Food Products	1958
Minolta	1928
Panasonic	1918
Matsushita	1918
Takeda Pharmaceutical	1781

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Leo Esaki	Physicist	12-Mar-1925		Electron tunneling
Toshihiko Fukui	Government	7-Sep-1935		Governor of the Bank of Japan
Yasunari Kawabata	Author	11-Jun-1899	16-Apr-1972	The Masters of Go
Hwang Jang Lee	Actor	13-Dec-1944		Drunken Master
Takashi Miike	Film Director	24-Aug-1960		Ichi the Killer
Lee Myung-Bak	Head of State	19-Dec-1941		President of South Korea
Kenzo Tange	Architect	4-Sep-1913	22-Mar-2005	Designed Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima
Isuzu Yamada	Actor	5-Feb-1917		Yojimbo

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Matsuo Basho	Poet	1644	12-Oct-1694	Haiku master
Konosuke Matsushita	Business	27-Nov-1894	27-Apr-1989	Founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.

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