Ibaraki, Osaka
Ibaraki (茨木市, Ibaraki-shi) is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is a suburban city of Osaka City and a part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area. Ibaraki translates to "wild trees" or "thorny trees". The city was incorporated on 1 January 1948.
Ibaraki
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 Ibaraki City Hall | |||||||||||
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 Location of Ibaraki in Osaka Prefecture | |||||||||||
  Ibaraki Location in Japan | |||||||||||
| Coordinates: 34°48′59″N 135°34′7″E | |||||||||||
| Country | Japan | ||||||||||
| Region | Kansai | ||||||||||
| Prefecture | Osaka Prefecture | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| • Mayor | Yoichi Fukuoka | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| • Total | 76.52 km2 (29.54 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population (28 February 2017) | |||||||||||
| • Total | 280,562 | ||||||||||
| • Density | 3,700/km2 (9,500/sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+09:00 (JST) | ||||||||||
| City hall address | 3-8-13 Ekimae, Ibaraki-shi, Ōsaka-fu 567-8505 | ||||||||||
| Website | www.city.ibaraki.osaka.jp | ||||||||||
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As of February 2017, the city has an estimated population of 280,562 and a population density of 3,580 persons per km2.[1] The total area is 76.52 km2.
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Education
Prefectural public senior high schools:
- Osaka Ibaraki High School (茨木高等学校)
- Kasugaoka High School (春日丘高等学校)
- Osaka Ibaraki Nishi High School (茨木西高等学校)
- Hokusetsu Tsubasa High School (北摂つばさ高等学校)
- Ibaraki Engineering High School (茨木工科高等学校)
- Osaka Prefectural Fukui Senior High School (福井高等学校)
Private junior and senior high schools:
- Otemon Junior & Senior High School (追手門学院中学校・高等学校)
- Kansai Ohkura Junior and Senior High School (関西大倉中学校・高等学校)
- Waseda Setsuryo Junior High School-High School (早稲田摂陵中学校・高等学校)
- Korea International School, a Korean international junior and senior high school, is in Ibaraki.
Private senior high schools:
Sister and friendship cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States – Sister city agreement concluded in 1980
Anqing, Anhui, China – Friendship city agreement concluded in 1985
Shōdoshima, Kagawa, Japan – Sister city agreement concluded in 1988 (with former Uchinomi town)- Taketa, Ōita, Japan – History cultural sister city agreement concluded in 2013
Notable people from Ibaraki, Osaka
- Ryota Hama, Japanese professional wrestler and retired sumo wrestler
- Satoshi Ishii, Japanese-Croatian judoka and mixed martial artist.
- Kusunoki Masashige, Japanese samurai of the Kamakura period
- Taiga Matsuo, professional Japanese baseball player
- Yasumichi Morita, interior designer
- Katagiri Katsumoto, Japanese warlord daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period.
- Hiroyuki Onoue, Japanese actor
- Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer, actor and lyricist (Kanjani Eight)
- Yu Shimasaki, former Japanese football player
- Chisato Moritaka, Japanese pop singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
- Tatsuo Kamon, Japanese singer-songwriter
- Takaharu Nishino, Japanese football player
- Mizuki Ichimaru, Japanese football player
- Manabu Ikeda, former Japanese football player
- Sayaka Yamamoto, Japanese singer and songwriter (NMB48 and AKB48)
- Atsushi Kimura, former Japanese football player
- Shinichi Terada, Japanese football player
- Takuto Hayashi, Japanese football player
- Kenji Matsuda, Japanese actor
- Teruo Sugihara, Japanese professional golfer
- Yuta Nakatsuka, Japanese Dancer and actor (Generations from Exile Tribe)
References
- "Official website of Ibaraki city" (in Japanese). Japan: Ibaraki City. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
External links
Media related to Ibaraki, Osaka at Wikimedia Commons
- Ibaraki city official website (in Japanese)
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