Timeline of Osaka explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Osaka, Japan.

Prior to 19th century

• 211 CE – Sumiyoshi taisha (shrine) founded.
• 593 CE – Shitennō-ji (temples) founded.
• 645 CE – Capital of Japan relocated to Naniwa-kyō;^[1] Kōtoku in power.
• 672 – Tenmu in power.
• 724 – Shōmu in power.
• 794 – Japanese capital relocated from Naniwa to Heian-kyō.
• 1496 – Ishiyama Hongan-ji construction begins (approximate date).^[2]
• 1583 – Osaka Castle construction begins.
• 1614 – November: Siege of Osaka begins.
• 1615
  • June: Siege of Osaka ends.
  • Dōtonbori (canal) built.
• 1684 – Takemoto-za puppet theatre opens.
• 1720 – Sasa-se theatre fan club founded.
• 1724 – Kaitokudō merchant academy established.^[3]

19th century

• 1805 – Bunrakuza puppet theatre opens (approximate date).
• 1837 – Economic/social unrest led by Ōshio Heihachirō.
• 1838 – Tekijuku (school) opens.
• 1868
  • European commerce begins.
  • City becomes part of Osaka Municipal Prefecture.
• 1869 – Tokyo-Osaka steamship line begins operating.^[4]
• 1871
  • Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka postal service begins.
  • Imperial Mint built.
• 1874 – Kobe-Osaka railway begins operating; Ōsaka Station (with clocktower) opens.^[5]
• 1875 – Meiji political Osaka Conference of 1875 held.
• 1876 – Osaka Nippō (newspaper) begins publication.
• 1878 – Osaka Stock Exchange and http://www.osaka.cci.or.jp/e/profile/ established.
• 1879 – Asahi Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.
• 1880 – established.
• 1881 – Osaka Iron Works established.^[6]
• 1882
  • Osaka Boseki Kaisha (spinning mill) in business.
  • Population: 332,425.
• 1884 – Osaka Shosen Kaisha (shipping firm) in business.^[7]
• 1887 – Population: 426,846.
• 1888 – (newspaper) begins publication.
• 1890 – Nakanoshima Park opens.
• 1892
  • December 20: Fire.
  • Population: 479,895.
• 1895
  • Sumitomo Bank established.^{[8] [9]}
  • Kyōbashi Station built.
• 1897
  • Parts of and annexed to Osaka city.
  • Demonstration of Lumière "projected pictures" at the Nanchi Embujo theatre.^[10]
  • Population: 758,285.
• 1900 – Population: 881,344 city; 1,678,422 prefecture.

20th century

1900s–1940s

• 1901 – Satirical begins publication.^[11]
• 1903 – held in Osaka.^[12]
• 1904 – Osaka Prefectural Nakanoshima Library opens.
• 1905 – Maruki-go bakery in business.
• 1909 – Tennōji Park established.
• 1910 – Population: 1,239,373 city; 2,197,201 prefecture.
• 1915 – Tennōji Zoo founded.^[13]
• 1917 – City planning committee formed.
• 1918
  • City Social Bureau established.^[14]
  • built.
• 1919 – Miki Hall (concert venue) opens.^[15]
• 1920
  • Shirokiya department store built.^[16]
  • Population: 1,768,295.^[17]
• 1922 – Daimaru department store built.
• 1923
  • Sharp in business.^[18]
  • becomes mayor.
• 1924 – Osaka Photographic Science Society founded.^[19]
• 1925
  • City wards established: Higashinari, Higashiyodogawa, Konohana, Minato, Naniwa, Nishinari, Nishiyodogawa, Sumiyoshi, and Tennōji.
  • "Public radio broadcasting commences."^[20]
  • Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. established.
  • Population: 2,114,804.
• 1926 – Asahi Kaikan (concert hall) opens.
• 1927 – (bridge) built over Dojima River.
• 1928 – Osaka University of Commerce active.
• 1929
  • Kosobe Conservatory (garden) established.^[21]
  • Hankyu Department Store opens in Umeda Station.
• 1930 – Population: 2,453,573 city; 3,540,017 prefecture.
• 1931 – National Defense Women's Association founded in Osaka.^{[22] [23]}
• 1932 – City wards established: Asahi and Taishō.
• 1933
  • Subway Midōsuji Line begins operating.
  • Sanwa Bank established.
• 1936
  • Osaka Tigers baseball team formed.
  • opens.
• 1940
  • January 28: Train crash at Ajikawaguchi Station.
  • Population: 3,252,340 city; 4,843,032 prefecture.
• 1942
  • (newspaper) in publication.
  • Subway Yotsubashi Line begins operating.
• 1943
  • City wards established: Abeno, Fukushima, Higashisumiyoshi, Ikuno, Jōtō, and Miyakojima.
  • Hitachi Zosen Corporation in business.
• 1945
  • March 13: Bombing of Osaka during World War II begins.
  • August 14: Bombing of Osaka ends.
  • Population: 1,102,959.^[24]
  • Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau established.
• 1947
  • Kansai Symphony Orchestra founded.
  • Population: 1,559,310.
• 1948 – Grand Sumo tournament begins.^[25]
• 1949 – Osaka City University and Osaka Securities Exchange active.

1950s–1990s

• 1950 – Population: 1,956,136.
• 1955
  • Cinerama Gekijo opens.^[26]
  • Sankei Sports newspaper begins publication.
  • Population: 2,547,321.
• 1956
  • Tsūtenkaku (tower) built.
  • Osaka designated a government ordinance city.^[27]
• 1957 – Sister city relationship established with San Francisco, USA.^[28]
• 1958 – Radio Osaka begins broadcasting.
• 1961
  • September: Typhoon Muroto II occurs.
  • Subway Chūō Line begins operating.
• 1964
  • Tokyo-Osaka Tōkaidō Shinkansen (hi-speed train) begins operating.
  • Nagai Stadium opens.
• 1967 – Subway Tanimachi Line begins operating.
• 1968 – newspaper in publication.^[29]
• 1969 – Subway Sakaisuji Line and Sennichimae Line begin operating.
• 1970
  • April: Gas explosion in Kita-ku.
  • Expo '70 (world's fair) held in Osaka.^[30]
• 1972
  • May 13: Sennichi Department Store Building fire.
  • Osaka Expo '70 Stadium opens.
• 1974 – City wards established: Hirano, Suminoe, Tsurumi, and Yodogawa.
• 1975 – Population: 2,780,000.^[31]
• 1977 – National Museum of Art, Osaka opens.
• 1979 – Capsule Inn Osaka in business.
• 1980 – established.^[32]
• 1982
  • Osaka International Ladies Marathon begins.
  • Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka established.
• 1983 – Osaka-jō Hall (arena) opens.
• 1984 – National Bunraku Theatre opens.
• 1987 – Kincho Stadium opens.
• 1989
  • City wards established: Chūō and Kita.
  • Osaka Science Museum opens.
• 1990
  • Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line begins operating.
  • Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan opens.
  • Garden and Greenery Exposition held in city.^[33]
• 1993 – Umeda Sky Building constructed.
• 1995
  • January 17: The 6.9 Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced in the region.
  • Takafumi Isomura becomes mayor.
• 1996 – Osaka Prefectural Central Library opens.^[34]
• 1997 – Tempozan Ferris Wheel and Kyocera Dome open.
• 1999 – Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum opens in nearby Ikeda.

21st century

• 2001 – June 8: Ikeda school massacre occurs in nearby Ikeda.
• 2006 – Subway Imazatosuji Line begins operating.
• 2007 – Kunio Hiramatsu becomes mayor.
• 2009 – Kansai Music Conference begins.
• 2010 – Population: 2,665,314.^[35]
• 2011 – Tōru Hashimoto becomes mayor.^[36]
• 2013 – Festival Hall opens.
• 2014 – Population: 2,685,218.^[37]
• 2021 – December 17: A fire occurs in Kita ward.

See also

• Osaka history
• Osaka history (in Japanese; includes timeline)

References

This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• Book: 1841 . Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century . London . . Hathi Trust . (Ohosaka) . Philipp Franz von Siebold . 2027/hvd.hw26ti . Philipp Franz von Siebold .

Published in the 20th century

• Book: Guide Book for Tourists in Japan . 1903. Obun Printing Co. . Yokohama . Osaka . https://books.google.com/books?id=5KYjh7iLsMYC&pg=PA104 .
• Book: Souvenir Guide to Osaka and the Fifth National Industrial Exhibition. 1903. Hakurankwai Kyosankwai . .
• Osaka . 20 . 344 . 1910 . . 1.
  • • • Book: Chine du Sud, Java, Japon . 1916 . 2nd . fr . Claudius Madrolle . Paris . Hachette . Osaka . 2027/uc1.$b193211 . Claudius Madrolle .
  • Book: W.A. Robson . William A. Robson . Great Cities of the World: their Government, Politics and Planning . 1954 . Routledge. 978-1-135-67247-8 . Tokyo and Osaka . https://books.google.com/books?id=4U8gAkKQ3aIC&pg=PA719 . 719–754 .
  • Hiiki Renchū (Theatre Fan Clubs) in Osaka in the Early Nineteenth Century . S. Matsudaira . Modern Asian Studies . 18 . 4 . 1984 . 312345 . 10.1017/s0026749x00016395 . 699–709. 143950026 . .
• Book: The proprietors assert themselves: the Osaka Asahi shinbun and the Osaka Mainichi shinbun in the late nineteenth century . Albert Altman . Peter Lowe and Herman Moeshart. Western Interactions With Japan: Expansions, the Armed Forces and Readjustment 1859–1956 . 1990 . Japan Library . 978-1-135-88102-3 . https://books.google.com/books?id=q762AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 . .
• Book: Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill . Japanese Cities. 1993 . USA . Temple University Press. 978-1-4399-0092-5 . Osaka and Tokyo Compared . https://books.google.com/books?id=JfT5A6AWTGUC&pg=PA53 .
• Book: Routledge . 9781884964046 . International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania . 1996 . Schellinger and Salkin . UK . Osaka . https://books.google.com/books?id=vWLRxJEU49EC&pg=PA648 . 648+ . .
• Book: James L. McClain and Wikita Osamu . Osaka: The Merchants' Capital of Early Modern Japan . 1999 . Cornell University Press . 0-8014-3630-3 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=yb0rftAN3oQC&pg=PR17 . .
• Book: Ian Martin Röpke. Historical Dictionary of Osaka and Kyoto . Historical Dictionaries of Cities of the World . 1999. . Maryland, USA . 978-0-8108-3622-8.

Published in the 21st century

• Book: Carl Mosk. Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth. 2001. M.E. Sharpe. 978-0-7656-3855-7 . Manchester of the Far East . .
• Book: Blair A. Ruble . Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka. 2001. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-80179-9. .
• Book: Jeffrey E. Hanes . The City As Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka. 2002. University of California Press. 978-0-520-92683-7. .
• Book: Richard Tames . A Traveller's History of Japan . 2008 . 4th . . USA . 978-1-56656-404-5 . Historical Gazetteer: Osaka . https://books.google.com/books?id=xIPs5fF2ehUC&pg=PA277 .
• Book: . Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports . 2012 . Bloomsbury . 978-1-78093-977-3 . Osaka . https://books.google.com/books?id=4akVAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA137 . 137– . (first published in 1987)

External links

• Items related to Osaka, various dates (via Europeana).
• Items related to Osaka, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).

Notes and References

1. Book: Kenneth Henshall. Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945 . 2014. Scarecrow Press . USA . 978-0-8108-7872-3 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=tmYYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR15.
2. Book: Mark L. Blum and Shin'ya Yasutomi . Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism. 2006 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-535099-9 . Chronology of Rennyo's Life . https://books.google.com/books?id=osIbxmUlCssC&pg=PA233 .
3. Book: Christine Guth. Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615–1868 . Timeline . 1996. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-16413-8.
4. Book: G. C. Allen . Short Economic History of Modern Japan, 1867–1937. 1946. Routledge . 978-0-415-31303-2. G. C. Allen.
5. Spread of Timepieces in the Meiji Period . Hoshimi Uchida . Japan Review . 173–192 . 14 (Birth of Tardiness: The Formation of Time Consciousness in Modern Japan) . 2002 . 25791261 .
6. Web site: Corporate Chronology . Hitachi Zosen Corporation . Osaka . July 30, 2015 .
7. Book: Financial and Economical Annual of Japan . Hathi Trust . 1904. Government Printing Office . Tokyo . Department of Finance . Ministry of Finance (Japan) .
8. Web site: Comparative Chronology of Money . Glyn Davies . Roy Davies . 2002 . University of Exeter . Glyn Davies (economist) .
9. Book: Norio Tamaki . Japanese Banking: A History, 1859–1959. Genealogy of leading Japanese banks, 1859–1959 . https://books.google.com/books?id=jJZVJz1YMzMC&pg=PR18 . 1995. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-02233-0.
10. Book: Jasper Sharp. Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. 2011. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-7541-8 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=oAYsyZRRqzcC&pg=PR19 .
11. Book: . Asian Punches: a Transcultural Affair . 2013. Springer . 978-3-642-28607-0.
12. Web site: Expositions: where the modern technology of the times was exhibited . . Tokyo . 2011 .
13. Book: Vernon N. Kisling. Zoo and Aquarium History. 2000. . USA . 978-1-4200-3924-5 . Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list) . https://books.google.com/books?id=dxTrR5nOE0UC&pg=PA384 .
14. Book: André Sorensen . The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century. 2002 . Japanese Studies Series . Routledge. 978-1-134-73657-7.
15. Book: Hugh de Ferranti and Alison Tokita . Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan: Osaka and Beyond. 2013. Ashgate . 978-1-4724-0989-8.
16. Book: Kazuo Usui . Marketing and Consumption in Modern Japan. 2014. Routledge. 978-1-134-35074-2.
17. Growth of Urban Population in Japan . Ayanori Okasaki . Genus . 13 . 1/4 . 132–152 . 1957 . 29787368.
18. Web site: Corporate Info: Chronology . Sharp Corporation . Osaka . July 30, 2015 .
19. Book: History of Japanese Photography . 2003 . . USA . 978-0-300-09925-6 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=gQkHWBEbFxIC&pg=PT339 . registration .
20. Book: Yoshio Sugimoto . Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture. 2009. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-49546-3 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=s80AAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT15 .
21. Web site: Garden Search: Japan . . London . July 30, 2015 .
22. Web site: . New York . Timeline of Modern Japan (1868–1945) . About Japan: A Teacher's Resource .
23. Book: Gregory James Kasza. The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations. 1995. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-06242-7.
24. Web site: Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . . New York .
25. Book: J.A. Sargeant . Sumo: the Sport and the Tradition . 1959 . Charles E. Tuttle Co.. 978-1-4629-0422-8.
26. Web site: Movie Theaters in Osaka . CinemaTreasures.org . Cinema Treasures LLC . Los Angeles . July 30, 2015 .
27. Book: Philip Shapira. Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan. 1994. Liverpool University Press. 978-0-85323-248-3. etal.
28. Web site: City & County of San Francisco . San Francisco Sister Cities . December 1, 2015 . USA .
29. Book: Europa World Year Book . 2004. . 978-1-85743-254-1 . Japan . https://books.google.com/books?id=wGA4o-UhAfgC&pg=PA2354 .
30. Book: Gary D. Allinson. Japan's Postwar History. 2004 . 2nd . Cornell University Press. 0-8014-8912-1 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=_yWAqHe-TO8C&pg=PR9 .
31. Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm . Demographic Yearbook 1975 . 1976 . United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office . New York . Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 253–279 .
32. Book: . Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. 2003. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-00132-8 . Orchestras Founded in the 20th Century (chronological list) . https://books.google.com/books?id=1DW1WyiooSMC&pg=PA277 .
33. Book: Brian Moeran . A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets . 978-1-136-79533-6 . Chronology of Japanese Advertising and Media from 1862 to 1991 . https://books.google.com/books?id=Za7dAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA298 . University of Hawaii Press . 1996 .
34. Web site: Institutions in Japan: Browse by Region (Kinki) . Research Access in Japanese Museums, Libraries, and Archives Resources . North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources . July 30, 2015 .
35. Web site: Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 2013 . .
36. Web site: Japanese Mayors . London . City Mayors.com . . July 30, 2015 .
37. Web site: About Osaka City . City of Osaka . July 30, 2015 .