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Osaka, Japan
LOCATION
Official Website:
http://www.city.osaka.jp/
Population:
2,624,129 (2003)
COMPANY HEADQUARTERS
BIRTHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Leo Esaki |
Physicist |
12-Mar-1925 |
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Electron tunneling |
| Toshihiko Fukui |
Government |
7-Sep-1935 |
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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 |
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Drunken Master |
| Takashi Miike |
Film Director |
24-Aug-1960 |
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Ichi the Killer |
| Lee Myung-Bak |
Head of State |
19-Dec-1941 |
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President of South Korea, 2008-13 |
| Kenzo Tange |
Architect |
4-Sep-1913 |
22-Mar-2005 |
Designed Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima |
| Isuzu Yamada |
Actor |
5-Feb-1917 |
9-Jul-2012 |
Yojimbo |
DEATHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Matsuo Basho |
Poet |
1644 |
12-Oct-1694 |
Haiku master |
| Konosuke Matsushita |
Business |
27-Nov-1894 |
27-Apr-1989 |
Founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. |
| Yoichiro Nambu |
Physicist |
18-Jan-1921 |
5-Jul-2015 |
Spontaneous broken symmetry |
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