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OSAKA : Encyclopedia Entry (1621 words) |
 | 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 still a center of higher education in Japan, comparable to Kyoto or Tokyo's 23 special wards. |
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