Hirakata

{{Infobox settlement | name = Hirakata | official_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = ja | settlement_type = Core city | other_name = | image_skyline = 枚方市役所庁舎.jpg | imagesize = | image_caption = Hirakata City hall | image_flag = Flag of Hirakata, Osaka.svg | image_seal = Emblem of Hirakata, Osaka.svg | seal_type = Emblem | image_map = Hirakata in Osaka Prefecture Ja.svg | map_alt = | map_caption = Location of Hirakata in Osaka Prefecture | pushpin_map = Japan | pushpin_relief = | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Japan | coordinates = | coordinates_footnotes = | total_type = | unit_pref = Metric | area_magnitude = | area_footnotes = from around 1973 to 2013.

====Ethnic Koreans==== As of 2013 the city has about 2,000 ethnic Koreans. Most Hirakata Koreans, including children of school age, use Japanese names. Many Koreans in Hirakata operate their own businesses. Hirakata has the "mother's society" or "Omoni no Kai", a voluntary association of ethnic Korean mothers. It also has branches of the Chongryon and Mindan, Japan's two major Korean associations. Hirakata has no particular Korean neighborhoods. There were about 3,000 ethnic Koreans in Hirakata in the pre-World War II period. In the 1930s Hirakata Koreans, fearful of keeping their own jobs, had negative attitudes towards Osaka-based Koreans who were looking for employment after having lost their jobs. Military construction was the most common job sector of that era's Korean population. Eriko Aoki stated that in 2013 there was still a sense of difference between the Koreans in Hirakata and the Koreans in Osaka.