Hannan University (http://www.hannan-u.ac.jp/english/index.html) (阪南大学 (http://www.hannan-u.ac.jp/)) is located in Matsubara. Hannan University is a mid-sized liberal arts university with a focus on business and technology.
External links
Official website (http://www.city.matsubara.osaka.jp/) in Japanese
Osaka is the historical commercial capital of Japan and is still one of Japan's major industrial centers and ports, the heart of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area, which has a population of 18,644,000.
Osaka was for a long time Japan's most important economic center with a large percentage of the population belonging to the merchant class (see Four divisions of society).
Osaka is known for bunraku (traditional puppet theatre) and kabuki theatre, and for manzai, a more contemporary form of stand-up comedy.