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Kumagaijin
Why not Osaka College?
shogun36
The Oklahoma State and University of Oklahoma might get mad.
How about they call it JR Osaka University? And Hankyu Umeda University? Wait, this isn't Japanese baseball......
Screw it, just call it Acme Looniversity and call it a day.
borscht
lostrune2
I think that’s what people are saying, Osaka Prefectural University (OPU) vs Osaka University (OU). I go for Happy Smile Cupcake University (HSCU) myself. No confusion possible. Except with the Happy Smile Cupcake shop down the street.
lostrune2
Then just call it Osaka State University (OSU ) vs. University of Osaka (UO)
ushosh123
Wait, both universities were evacuated due to bomb threat, see they were confused as to where the bomb was, name is so confusing!
DNALeri
Let's hope it will not come to be known as University of Chaosaka (from chaos).
Pukey2
So what are their names in Japanese?
tamanegi
University names matter!
DaDude
or some sick puppy unrelated to any of the schools. It has happened many times.
nandakandamanda
PS The Nagasaki justification given towards the end of the article seems pretty weak as I am sure they get plenty of confusion on a constant basis.
nandakandamanda
@timeon. Although 公立 Koritsu means public, as opposed to 私立 Shiritsu private.
timeon
I did a search of the local news, and the name in Japanese is 大阪公立大学, Osaka Koritsu Daigaku. Directly translated into English would be Osaka Metropolitan University
nandakandamanda
'The University of Osaka' is just plain wrong for some new up-and-coming 'other' body to take. Too similar. Sorry.
'The' university of Osaka is Osaka University, so the name is already taken, in spirit, if not in law.
There are other good possibilities, as some have suggested above, such as:
Osaka Metropolitan University
Osaka City & Prefecture University
Osaka Urban University
And so on.
Ricky Kaminski13
Incredible. Are they deliberately trying to push out a competitor or just unimaginative??
and a bomb scare!?! Would never have read about it without it. Omoroi.
rainyday
This will cause confusion and if I were a student atOsaka University, I’d be pissed too (not enough to justify a bomb threat of course, but still). Osaka University is ranked 8th in Japan, Osaka Prefecture University is 57th.
Nobody in Japan is likely to mistake the two, but overseas they might.
ArtistAtLarge
A bomb threat over a name.
Some people really are too crazy.
timeon
Among national unis, there is only one "The University of", and that's the University of Tokyo. Everything else is the XX University, so let's see how will this work out. Osaka Shiritsu and Osaka Furitsu was always very confusing and nobody knew which is which so it is a good thing they got together, but what will be the name in Japanese? Osaka Daigaku is already taken
kohakuebisu
I hope they find the person responsible for these threats and put him/her in the police cells for a few days. If they make fun of the perp while locking the cell, so much the better.
This is the crux of the matter. The name is not confusing because Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura says so. What English speakers or anyone else think is irrelevant.
rgcivilian1
Osaka University sounds cheap though it may not be, however "University of Osaka" sounds more prestigious and classy. As a hiring official IMO I would look for the candidates with "University of Osaka" to have higher standards vs just ordinary Osaka University. First impressions still count and the name of a University just might be the clincher for the job.
Vince Black
Would they have preferred “happy smile University”?
borscht
What will the Japanese name be? I've found people are 'confused' with, for example, the University of Washington in Seattle being Washington Daigaku and Washington University in St. Louis also being, in Japanese, Washington Daigaku. Is there a Daigaku no Osaka?
But more 'confusing', someone was upset over this name enough to send in a bomb threat?
lordoflys
Let me suggest the name "The Osaka School of Hard Knocks" as it is currently getting kicked around and, if the current name persists, will continue getting knocked around until it considers a name change.
noriahojanen
I suggest renaming "Osaka Metropolitan University" an equivalent to Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. It also corresponds well to the ongoing local administrative reform, according to which the Osaka city and prefecture would be integrated into an Osaka Metropolis.
Ah_so
University of Osaka is an absurd name given that this is synonymous with Osaka University in English.
The bomb threat no doubt came from an inadequate right-winger, and not the staff at Osaka University.