referendum on the implementation of the Osaka Metropolis Plan was held in Osaka on 1 November 2020. In the event of a "yes" vote, the wards in Osaka City...

The Osaka Metropolis Plan (大阪都構想, Ōsaka-to kōsō) or Osaka Metropolis was a plan to transform Osaka Prefecture from a fu, an urban prefecture, into a to...

its main platform is pursuing the Osaka Metropolis plan of merging the prefecture and some of its cities into "One Osaka", reducing overlapping bureaucratic...

politics following the defeat of the Osaka Metropolis Plan in a 2020 referendum. "Profile of the Mayor". www.city.osaka.lg.jp. Retrieved May 11, 2023. Johnston...

after Osaka rejects merger plan in referendum". May 19, 2017. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Eric Johnston (November 2, 2020). "Osaka referendum...

mayor of Osaka. A referendum on the issue was held in 2015 and was defeated with 50.38% of voters opposed to the plan. A second referendum in 2020 was rejected...

2023-08-16. Retrieved 2017-07-26. "Osaka metropolis plan rejected by slim margin in 2nd referendum". Kyodo News. 2 Nov 2020. Archived from the original on...

cannot style themselves metropolis (都, -to) as the Local Autonomy Law only allows Tokyo with that status. In Osaka, a 2015 referendum to replace the city...

seek a new mandate from voters. Osaka voted down the Osaka Metropolis plan by a thin margin in a May 2015 referendum. Following the defeat of his core...

leader of the party. Following the defeat of the Osaka Metropolis plan in an Osaka city referendum in May 2015, Eda resigned as leader and former Democratic...