Editing Osaka (section)

=== Sports ===
[[File:Kyocera Dome Osaka1.jpg|thumb|The [[Osaka Dome]], home to the Orix Buffaloes and Hanshin Tigers]]
Osaka hosts four professional sport teams: one of them is the [[Orix Buffaloes]], a [[Nippon Professional Baseball]] team, playing its home games at [[Osaka Dome|Kyocera Dome Osaka]]. Another baseball team, the [[Hanshin Tigers]], although based in [[Nishinomiya, Hyōgo]], plays a part of its home games in [[Osaka Dome|Kyocera Dome Osaka]] as well, when their homeground [[Koshien Stadium]] is occupied with the annual [[Japanese High School Baseball Championship|National High School Baseball Championship]] games during summer season.

There are two [[J.League]] clubs, [[Gamba Osaka]], plays its home games at [[Suita City Football Stadium]]. Another club [[Cerezo Osaka]], plays its home games at [[Yanmar Stadium Nagai]]. The city is home to [[Osaka Evessa]], a basketball team that plays in the [[B.League]]. Evessa has won the first three championships of the league since its establishment. [[Kintetsu Liners]], a [[rugby union]] team, play in the [[Japan Rugby League One|Top League]]. After winning promotion in 2008–09, they will again remain in the competition for the 2009–10 season. Their base is the [[Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium|Hanazono Rugby Stadium]].

The {{Nihongo4||春場所|''Haru Basho''|"Spring Tournament"}}, one of the six regular tournaments of professional [[sumo]], is held annually in Osaka at [[Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium]].

Another major annual sporting event that takes place in Osaka is [[Osaka International Ladies Marathon]]. Held usually at the end of January every year, the {{convert|42.195|km|3|abbr=in|adj=on}} race starts from Nagai Stadium, runs through [[Nakanoshima]], [[Midōsuji]] and [[Osaka Castle|Osaka castle]] park, and returns to the stadium. Another yearly event held at Nagai Stadium is the Osaka Gran Prix Athletics games operated by the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF) in May. The Osaka GP is the only IAAF games annually held in Japan.

Osaka made the bid for the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] and the [[2008 Summer Paralympics]] but was eliminated in the first round of the vote on July 13, 2001, which awarded the game to Beijing.

Osaka was one of the host cities of the official [[Women's Volleyball World Championship]] for its [[1998 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship|1998]], [[2006 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship|2006]] and [[2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship|2010]] editions.

Osaka is the home of the 2011 created [[Japan Bandy Federation]] and the introduction of [[bandy]], in the form of [[rink bandy]], was made in the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbandy.com/news.asp?newsid=50&title=Bandy%20came%20to%20Japan!|title=Bandy came to Japan!|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502200433/http://www.worldbandy.com/news.asp?newsid=50&title=Bandy%20came%20to%20Japan!|archive-date=May 2, 2012}}</ref> In July 2012 the first Japan Bandy Festival was organized.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbandy.com/news.asp?newsid=138&title=BANDY%20Festival%202012%20in%20OSAKA|title=BANDY Festival 2012 in OSAKA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016043725/http://www.worldbandy.com/news.asp?newsid=138&title=BANDY%20Festival%202012%20in%20OSAKA|archive-date=October 16, 2012}}</ref>