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    often seen as an icon of Osaka within Japan. Historical images of Dōtonbori Dōtonbori traces its history back to 1612, when the administrator of local...
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    treatment of one of his store-front statues, which was thrown into the Dōtonbori River by Hanshin fans before their team's 1985 Central League pennant...
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    Shinsaibashi-suji (心斎橋筋), a covered shopping street, that is north of Dōtonbori and Sōemonchō, and parallel and east of Mido-suji street. Associated with...
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  • Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The title refers to the area of Dōtonbori. A nineteen-year-old aspiring painter named Kunihiko Yasuoka meets a woman...
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    manufactured by Icreo Co., Ltd. Ezaki Glico's large LED sign located above Dōtonbori in Osaka has been a landmark of the city since its initial construction...
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    on the 18th Floor of the Epson Osaka Building in Chūō-ku. Amerikamura Dōtonbori National Bunraku Theater Osaka Business Park Osaka Castle Shinsaibashi...
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    landmarks in the city include Osaka Castle, Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, Dōtonbori, Tsūtenkaku in Shinsekai, Tennōji Park, Abeno Harukas, Sumiyoshi Taisha...
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  • Dōtonbori and Shinsekai districts. Although these areas were recreated as fictionalized versions, many real life landmarks remain such as Dōtonbori's...
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    the Hanshin Namba Line. Kintetsu Namba Building Midosuji Grand Building Dōtonbori Osaka City Air Terminal (OCAT) Minatomachi River Place (including FM OSAKA)...
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    Japan. It runs north-south, passing Umeda, Nakanoshima, Shinsaibashi, Dōtonbori, Ame-mura, and Namba districts. Underneath the street is the Midōsuji...
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  • entertainment district of Shinjuku ni-chome.[citation needed] Pickup artist Dōtonbori: Ebisubashi Dōkyūsei Group dating in Japan Botting, Geoff. "Japanese women...
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  • receptive towards film permits so the similarly futuristic neon-infused Dōtonbori in Namba was chosen as the principal filming location in Japan. An aerial...
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    "Ame-mura". Amerikamura is an area stretching from Nagahori Street to Dotonbori, located in the west side of the Shinsaibashi station. Amerikamura is...
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  • and Sotenbori, Osaka, based on the real life locations of Kabukicho and Dōtonbori, respectively. Combat is based on that previously seen in Yakuza 6, though...
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  • condition that she can use part of their club room for storage. Tōru Dōtonbori (道頓堀透, Dōtonbori Tōru) Voiced by: Miyuki Kawashō (Japanese); Donna Bella Litton...
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    borders on two other entertainment districts, Shinsaibashi to the north and Dōtonbori to the south. Sōemonchō has a high concentration of bars, restaurants...
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    celebrated by having people who looked like Tigers players jump into the Dōtonbori Canal. According to legend, because none of the fans resembled first baseman...
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    Kentucky Fried Chicken) after fans of the team threw his statue into the Dōtonbori Canal while celebrating the Tigers' 1985 Japan Championship Series, not...
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    properly refers to the bridge of the same name, which crosses over the Dōtonbori canal. However, the shopping district bearing the name of the bridge does...
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    first butai karakuri, karakuri designed for stage performances, in the Dōtonbori neighborhood of Osaka. He then built several of these large puppets for...
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  • 1980s Virus (1980) The Gate of Youth (1981) Samurai Reincarnation (1981) Dotonbori River (1982) Fall Guy (1982) Theater of Life (1983) Legend of the Eight...
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    Takeda-za developed a mechanical-puppet theater that flourished in Osaka's Dōtonbori district. The Japanese craftsman Hisashige Tanaka, known as "Japan's Edison...
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  • Kabukichō. Second is Sōtenbori, a fictional Osaka district based on Dōtonbori, returning from Yakuza 2. The three new cities in the game are: Nagasugai...
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    Tokyo. Other actual locations reproduced in the game series include: Dotonbori and Shinsekai, Osaka (as "Sotenbori" and "Shinseicho" in-game, respectively...
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    Famous advertisement by Glico man in Dōtonbori (middle-left)...
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  • Sotenbori (another area from previous Yakuza games, based on the real-life Dōtonbori district) are featured in the game. Yokohama's criminal underworld consists...
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    (WHS) Mount Kōya – Kongōbu-ji (WHS) Osaka – Osaka Castle, Umeda, Namba, Dōtonbori, Shinsaibashi, Shinsekai, Shitennō-ji, Sumiyoshi-taisha, Universal Studios...
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  • Sotenbori, fictionalized recreations of Tokyo's Kabukichō and Osaka's Dōtonbori areas respectively. The player controls series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu...
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  • Blues, US (2004) Dorian Gray, UK (2009) Dostana (दोस्ताना), India (2008) Dotonbori River (道頓堀川), Japan (1982) Doubt (Duda), Philippines (2003) Down the River...
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    Also that year, a Ferris wheel opened at the facade of the Don Quijote Dōtonbori branch in Osaka. In October 2007, Don Quijote purchased the ailing Nagasakiya...
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