Editing Osaka Prefecture (section)

== Economy ==
[[Image:Osaka umeda06s3200.jpg|thumb|right|Diamond district in Umeda]]
[[Image:Osaka Garden City Osaka Japan01-r.jpg|right|thumb|Osaka Garden City]]
[[Image:Osaka Castle.jpg|thumb|Osaka castle]] 
[[File:Osaka Business Park, Southwest view from Osaka Castle 20250111.jpg|right|thumb|Osaka business park]]
[[Image:USJ 5years.JPG|thumb|[[Universal Studios Japan]]]] 
[[Image:Osaka Kansai Int'l Airport Terminal1 (17567741930).jpg|right|thumb|[[Kansai International Airport]]]]
[[Image:2018 Umeda Sky Building.jpg|thumb|[[Umeda Sky Building]]]]
[[Image:Osaka neon.jpg|thumb|Famous advertisement by [[Glico]] man in [[Dōtonbori]] (middle-left)]]

The gross prefecture product of Osaka for the fiscal year 2004 was ¥38.7&nbsp;trillion, second after Tokyo with an increase of 0.9% from the previous year. This represented approximately 48% of the Kinki region. The per capita income was ¥3.0&nbsp;million, seventh in the nation.<ref name="esripref">{{cite web|title=平成16年度の県民経済計算について (Prefectural Economy for the fiscal year 2004 based on 93SNA) ''Cabinet Office, Government of Japan''|language=ja|url=http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/jp/sna/kenmin/h16/kenmin1.pdf|access-date = 2007-03-13 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070614232333/http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/jp/sna/kenmin/h16/kenmin1.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-06-14}}</ref> Commercial sales the same year was ¥60.1&nbsp;trillion.<ref name="osakastat">{{cite web|title=大阪府民経済計算 (Osaka Prefectural Economy based on 93SNA) ''Osaka Prefectural Government''|language=ja|url=http://www.pref.osaka.jp/aid/naniwa/naniwa2007/n2007-2-5.pdf|access-date = 2007-03-13 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070614232402/http://www.pref.osaka.jp/aid/naniwa/naniwa2007/n2007-2-5.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-06-14}}</ref>

Overshadowed by such globally renowned electronics giants as [[Panasonic Corporation|Panasonic]] and [[Sharp Corporation|Sharp]], the other side of Osaka's economy can be characterized by its Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) activities. The number of SMEs based in Osaka in 2006 was 330,737, accounting for 99.6% of the total number of businesses in the prefecture.<ref name="sme">{{cite web
|title=2006 White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan, Japan Small Business Research Institute (Japan)
|url=http://www.chusho.meti.go.jp/pamflet/hakusyo/h18/download/2006hakusho_eng.pdf
|access-date=2007-03-13
|archive-date=2007-03-23
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070323003306/http://www.chusho.meti.go.jp/pamflet/hakusyo/h18/download/2006hakusho_eng.pdf
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> While this proportion is similar to other prefectures (the average nationwide was 99.7%), the manufactured output of the SMEs amounted to 65.4% of the total within the prefecture, a rate significantly higher than Tokyo's 55.5%, or [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]]'s 38.4%.<ref name="naniwaeco">{{cite web|title=なにわの経済データ (The Naniwa Economy Data)|language=ja|url=http://www.pref.osaka.jp/aid/naniwa/naniwa2007/n2007-2-3.pdf|access-date = 2007-03-13 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070614232332/http://www.pref.osaka.jp/aid/naniwa/naniwa2007/n2007-2-3.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-06-14}}</ref> One model from Osaka of serving the public interest and restimulating the regional economy, combined with industry-education cooperation efforts, is the Astro-Technology SOHLA,<ref name="SOHLA">{{cite web|title=Astro-Technology SOHLA|language=ja|url=http://www.sohla.com/index.php|access-date=2007-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070309013816/http://www.sohla.com/index.php|archive-date=2007-03-09|url-status=dead}}</ref> with its artificial satellite project.<ref name="acpr">{{cite web |title=Japan Advertising Council |url=http://www.ad-c.or.jp/eng/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301034145/http://www.ad-c.or.jp/eng/index.html |archive-date=2007-03-01 |access-date=2007-03-14}} For details on the campaign featuring SOHLA, navigate through the Japanese page to the 2003 campaign listing, at entry "東大阪の人工衛星" (Higashiosaka's Satellite) [http://www.ad-c.or.jp/campaign/work/2003/index.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312040832/http://www.ad-c.or.jp/campaign/work/2003/index.html|date=2007-03-12}}</ref> Having originally started from a gathering of [[Higashiosaka]] based SMEs, Astro-Technology SOHLA has not only grown into a Kansai region-wide group but has also won support from the government, through technology and material support from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA),<ref name="JAXA">{{cite web|title="Smaller firms build a satellite" ''City of Osaka, Chicago Office''|url=http://www.osakacity.org/news/newsItem.aspx?news=244|access-date=2007-03-14|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929124433/http://www.osakacity.org/news/newsItem.aspx?news=244|archive-date=2007-09-29}}</ref> and financial support from NEDO.<ref>The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization</ref><ref name="NEDO">{{cite web|title="Study of PETSAT" ''NEDO, 2005''|language=ja, en|url=http://www.nedo.go.jp/kibanbu/saitaku/15h/houkokusho/16higasiosaka.pdf|access-date=2007-03-14|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614232331/http://www.nedo.go.jp/kibanbu/saitaku/15h/houkokusho/16higasiosaka.pdf|archive-date=2007-06-14}}</ref>

The [[Osaka Securities Exchange]], specializing in derivatives such as Nikkei 225 Futures, is based in Osaka.

There are many electrical, chemical, pharmaceutical, heavy industry, food, and housing companies in Osaka Prefecture.

{{wide image|Osaka_Dusk_Skyline.png|800px|Osaka city skyline at dusk viewed from the [[Umeda Sky Building]]}}

=== Major companies ===
{{main|Category:Companies based in Osaka Prefecture}}

=== Major factories and research institutes ===
{{main|Hanshin Industrial Region|Kansai Science City}}