Osaka
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1.
port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay; a commercial and industrial center of Japan
Origin
From Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”) - the slope up to the Uemachi Plateau, where Osaka Castle sits.
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