Osaka, Japan
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Statistics
- • city status — safe
- • former population — 2,643,805
- • current population — 87,320
- • official languages — Japanese, Kansai-ben
- • project headquarters — Umeda Sky Building
- • project representative — Danny Goldstein
City News
2010
— MAY 22
The city was restored.— AUGUST 10
The city was hit by intense freezing rain for most of the day.
Noteworthy Locations
• Umeda Sky Building — Currently serving as the headquarters for the Revival Project. The seventh-tallest building in Osaka, and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. It consists of two 40-story towers that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing the wide atrium-like space in the center.
• Osaka Castle — Originally called Ozakajō, it is one of Japan's most famous castles, and played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Osaka Castle is situated on a plot of land roughly one kilometer square. It is built on two raised platforms of landfill supported by sheer walls of cut rock, using a technique called Burdock piling, each overlooking a moat. The central castle building is five stories on the outside and eight stories on the inside, and built atop a tall stone foundation to protect its occupants from sword-bearing attackers.
• Universal Studios Japan — It is one of three Universal Studios theme parks, owned and operated by USJ Co., Ltd. (TYO: 2142). The park is similar to Universal Orlando Resort, since it contains many of the same rides. Most visitors are Japanese tourists or tourists from other Asian countries such as the Republic of China, the People's Republic of China, and South Korea. In 2005 Goldman Sachs became the largest shareholder in Universal Studios Japan. Universal still has a small minority stake in the park. The park opened on March 31, 2001. 11 million guests entered Universal Studios Japan in its first year of operation, the fastest any park reached that milestone.
• Osaka Dome — Beginning in 1997, the stadium was the home field of the Kintetsu Buffaloes. In 2005, the stadium became one of the homes of the Orix Buffaloes as a result of the merger of the Orix Blue Wave and Kintetsu Buffaloes. Prior to the Osaka Dome opening, the Buffaloes played their home games at Fujiidera Stadium. Also, musicical acts like Janet Jackson, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Beyoncé, Celine Dion, The Rolling Stones, Eagles, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Billy Joel, Madonna, Mariah Carey and The Police have performed large-scale concerts in this stadium.
Survivors
Deceased/Missing
- None as of yet
NPCs
- None as of yet
