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	Kansai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kansai region is often compared (yet more often contrasted) with the Kantō region, which lies to the east and is comprised primarily of Tokyo and the surrounding area.
		Whereas the Kanto region is symbolic of standardization throughout Japan (from the government to economics to the language), the Kansai region displays many more idiosyncrasies through the culture in Kyoto, the mercantilism of Osaka, the history of Nara, the internationality of Kobe, and the distinct dialect (Kansai-ben) heard through the seven prefectures.
		The dialects of the people of the Kansai region have their own variations of pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar which are unique to the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kansai (640 words)

	Kansai - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Kansai region (関西) of Japan, also known as the Kinki region (近畿地方; Kinki-chihō), lies in the middle of Japan's main island, Honshu.
		The Kansai region is often compared (yet more often contrasted) with the Kanto region, which lies to the east and is comprised primarily of Tokyo and the surrounding area.
		Whereas the Kanto region is symbolic of standardization throughout Japan (from the government to economics to the language), the Kansai region displays many more idiosyncracies through the culture in Kyoto, the merchantilism of Osaka, the history of Nara, the internationality of Kobe, and the distinct dialect (Kansai-ben) heard through the seven prefectures.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Kansai (360 words)

	Kansai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At the root of the decline in Kansai lie the same troubles that plague the...
		The dialect of the people of the Kansai, called Kansai-ben in Japanese, could be compared to the Boston or New England accent in contrast with the more typical United States English accent.
		Some Japanese feel that Kansai people speak in a very stern and direct tone, and that it sounds menacing, and almost angry.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Kansai (682 words)

	AnimeNation Anime Forums - View Single Post - japanese dialects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Japanese dialects are typically mutually intelligible, although extremely geographically separated dialects such as Tōhoku-ben and Tsushima-ben may not be; in such cases speakers switch to the standard language with which all Japanese are familiar from school and from the media.
		The most well-known dialect outside of Tokyo, Kansai-ben (関西弁; (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/関西弁), ben dialect), also known as Osaka-ben, is a dialect spoken in the Kansai region of Japan, and most notably in the city of Osaka.
		It is Kanto in accent, Kansai in intonation, archaic in vocabulary and Nagoya in grammar.
	www.animenation.net /forums/showpost.php?p=4630092&postcount=4 (1344 words)

	Read about Kansai at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Kansai and learn about Kansai here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Kansai region (関西) of Japan, also known as the Kinki region (近畿地方; Kinki-chihō), lies in the middle of Japan's main island,
		Kobe, and the distinct dialect (Kansai-ben) heard through the seven prefectures.
		The dialects of the people of the Kansai region, called Kansai-ben in Japanese, could be compared to the Boston or New England accent in contrast with the more typical United States English accent.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Kansai (493 words)

	Kansai - Travelgaido (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kansai (関西) is the western region of the main Japanese island of Honshu, second only to Tokyo's Kanto in population.
		Kansai people speak a distinctive dialect of Japanese, use less dark soy in their cooking, ride on the other side of escalators and are renowned for humor and their love of food.
		Kansai cooking is subtly different from the Kanto style, although the average short-term visitor is unlikely to spot many differences.
	travelgaido.com /en/Kansai.html (756 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kyoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major city of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.
		Kyoto natives also speak a Japanese dialect called Kyoto-ben, a variation on the Kansai dialect spoken throughout western Japan.
		Kansai International Airport is 72 minutes from Kyoto by train (the Haruka Express).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kyoto (4753 words)

	Dialects of the Japanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The most well-known dialect outside of Tokyo, Kansai-ben (関西弁;, ben dialect), also known as Osaka-ben, is a dialect spoken in the Kansai region of Japan, and most notably in the city of Osaka.
		Thus there are specific dialects such as Kyōto-ben, Kobe-ben, Nara-ben, Wakayama-ben, etc. However, since Osaka is the largest city of the region, and since its speakers have gained the most media exposure in the last century, the typical Japanese person tends to associate the dialect of Osaka with the entire Kansai region.
		Since Kansai-ben is the most common atypical dialect of Japanese, it has become a favorite with Japanese authors, manga and anime artists, and the like as the choice for representing a somewhat "different" character from the norm.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Dialects-of-the-Japanese-language.htm (1429 words)

	Kinki Japanese: The Dialects & Culture of the Kansai Region \| D. C. Palter, Kaoru Horiuchi \|... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As written by the book, the causes are the dialect and culture etc. What are said frequently in Japan is what Kansai dialect is the vulger dialect compared to Tokyo dialct(Hyoujun go}.
		Off course in Kansai dialect many dialects exists, Oosaka dialect, Kyouto dialect, Koube dialect, Himeji dialect, and like Kyouto dialect the polite dialect exist too, but in general like Oosaka dialect the dialect is casual against the Tokyo dialect of the polite dialect.
		They say that Kansai dialect is wonderful language, that is, they dare to talk such casual words, therefore they can comunicate with unfamiliar people friendly.
	www.this-is-great.com /info/flfilsfere (881 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Kansai International Airport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kansai International Airport (IATA: KIX, ICAO: RJBB) (ja: 関西国際空港 Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) is an international airport located on an artificial island in Osaka Bay, south of Osaka, Japan.
		In 1995, Kansai Airport was struck by the Kobe earthquake, which was centered just 20 km away and killed 6,433 people on the mainland.
		Kansai Airport is connected by a road/railway bridge to Rinku Town.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Kansai_International_Airport (1567 words)

	What's FUTARIKKO?
		This was because actors from the Kansai district appeared to be the main characters.
		In the beginning, she intended to speak the standard dialect, because the story had established CHIAKI as the daughter of the upper classes of Ashiya.
		She therefore throws the accent of her birthplace away, and comes to speak the Ashiya dialect (an accent which is close to the standard dialect).
	twins.pos.to /about/whats-e.html (954 words)

	Difference in Japans Two Biggest Regions: Kanto and Kansai
		Kanto stands for the area around Tokyo, which is located in the eastern part of Japan, and Kansai stands for the area around Osaka, which is located in the western part of Japan.
		In the meantime, the reason why people can understand what other people of the Kansai region said is that they generally watch most comedy channels in the Kansai dialect because most comedians come from the Kansai region.
		If local flavors and dialects are the most notable differences between Kansai and Kanto regions, still there are a lot more differences that one may conclude.
	www.coursework.info /i/74075.html (676 words)

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		All of the members, except for one, hailed from Kansai, the southwestern region of Japan.
		Having lived some time in Kansai myself, it was a pleasure to be able to slip back into old patterns of speech.
		The Kansai dialect is most readily comparable to the dialect of English that the character Tony Soprano speaks in the HBO series bearing his last name.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~veap/rakugo_report.doc (556 words)

	Jref Kansai Ben thread - Japan Forum
		I think the dialect is quite complex, in terms of the number of variations, and the amount of slangs...
		In most places in Kansai, the -haru form is conjugated to the -i base of the verb.
		Most foreign speakers hear the unique kansai words and think "cool", but I learned most of my Japanese while living in the Kansai area and even when I use very standard Japanese vocabulary I am told that I sound kinda funny because my Accent is so strongly kansai...
	www.jref.com /forum/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=15558 (680 words)

	Kansai-Ben Basics - Kern's Japan Blog
		The dialect of Japanese spoken in that area is considered "standard".
		Kansai is the region including Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Kobe.
		Like any dialect, there are also changes in rhythm, emphasis, contractions, etc. But here are six words that are unique to Kansai.
	www.planetkern.com /blog/index.php?itemid=25 (726 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		In the old days, before 1600, anyone outside the Kansai area were considered somewhat lacking in culture (in the aristocratic ways of Kyoto).
		The Kansai dialect is certainly richer in nuance than the Tokyo dialect.
		Manassas, Va.: In regard to the rendering of the Kansai dialect: In Seidensticker's introduction to the translation, he said that he did not attempt to show the difference between the Tokyo dialect and the dialect of the sisters.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/01/bookclub_tanabe0326.htm (2332 words)

	Famous Places in Anime: Kansai Region
		Kobe, in the Hyogo prefecture of the Kansai region, is the second largest port in Japan with a population of over one million.
		Shown in the animated dramas Grave of the Fireflies and Earth Girl Arjuna, the city of Kobe is also well-known for the real-life drama and hardship caused by a natural disaster at the end of the 20th century.
		Another identifying characteristic of the city of Osaka, as well as the Kansai region, is the distinctive dialect.
	www.animeacademy.com /kansai.php (608 words)

	Dialects of Japanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Japanese language has dozens of geographic dialects in addition to standard Japanese, which grew out of Kanto's dialect.
		The most well-known, Kansai-ben (関西弁;, ben dialect), also known as Osaka-ben, is a dialect spoken in the Kansai region of Japan, and most notably in the city of Osaka.
		Fukui-ben is a notable dialect of the Fukui prefecture in the Japanese language.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Dialects-of-Japanese-language.htm (737 words)

	Seinen Okada
		Okada-kun is not only the youngest of the group, but he's the only one of the group not from the Tokyo area, but from Osaka, the second biggest city in Japan.
		Osaka is also the home of the Kansai dialect, one of the most distinctive dialects in Japan.
		Okada-kun's Kansai dialect isn't very strong, but sometimes when he gets tired or worked up, you start to hear him slipping further and further into it.
	www.senshigakuen.com /degrees/profiles/okada.htm (806 words)

	Superslick # a mini shrine for Ruby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The way she speaks is called "Kansai dialect".
		In general, Kansai refers to a broad area in central Japan, extending from the Japan Sea in the north to the Pacific Ocean in the south [includes Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka,..] The term itself does not specify certain boundaries, rather it is defined from a cultural and historical viewpoint.
		Kansai-ben or Kansai dialect, the language popularly used in this region, is very different in wording as well as in accent from that used in Tokyo and other regions and it is one of the cultural features of Kansai.
	eowyn.nu /ruby/yeehaw.htm (231 words)

	X, -tt-, and -han (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		-han is a kansai dialect version of -san, however it's also common in kansai to append -han to greetings.
		She's bascially a typical young Kansai woman in her early twenties who they use to adevertise cultural spots, shopping and eateries along the Keihan line.
		Kansai people will also sometimes give their idols/comedians/sports celebrities names that end in han as a kind of term of endearment or just a nickname.
	www.animelyrics.com /forum/topic_show.pl?pid=141278 (668 words)

	How do you say house in japanese? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I know that in Kansai {jibun} can refer to the second person as well as the first, which makes it confusing.
		Unfortunately he used to work as a radio officer on ships before immigrating to Canada and my mother is from Tokyo so he's lost most of the dialect and a total of 2 Fukuoka-specific expressions have rubbed off on me and my sister.
		But now that I think of it, there seem to be plenty of similarities (for example, women seem to use the pronoun {uchi} in both dialects).
	www.animelyrics.com /forum/topic_show.pl?pid=82252 (1694 words)

	Japan Forum - View Single Post - Jref Kansai Ben thread
		You don't apply for a job, write a letter, etc in kansai dialect.
		My advice would be : learn to understand the dialectal forms, but don't use them yourself too much.
		A major difference between standard and Kansai Japanese is the pitch accent : if you speak standard Japanese with the Kansai accent, you will still sound "kansai", and if you speak Kansai Japanese with a different accent, you will sound very very weird.
	www.jref.com /forum/showpost.php?p=182666&postcount=3 (150 words)

	Kansai accent - Bulbagarden Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As for your question, people living in the same general area also use Kansai dialect.
		It's more likely that they don't use a Kansai dialect, just that they use a Kansai dialect dervied dialect.
		Tokyo and Kansai dialects are the two major ones, and most everything else tends to branch out from those, depending on if they're in the east (Tokyo) or west (Osaka).
	www.bulbagarden.net /bmgf/showthread.php?t=6959 (230 words)

	Kansai - Wikitravel
		The primary domestic airport is Osaka's Itami Airport, although a new airport will be opening in Kobe in 2006.
		Slide them in the ticket gate when entering and leaving, and the fare will be deducted automatically.
		Kansai is sake country, with Nada (in Kobe) and Fushimi (in Kyoto) alone accounting for 45% of the country's production.
	wikitravel.org /en/Kansai (757 words)

	Dialects of the Japanese language - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		The Japanese language, in addition to to Standard Japanese, based on Tokyo speech, has dozens of geographic dialects.
		There are also other languages (or perhaps just very distinct dialects) spoken in the remote southern parts of Japan.
		The Ainu language, the other clearly non-Japanese language found in Japan, is generally said to be a completely separate, though possibly related language.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Osaka-ben (1202 words)

	Oberlin College :: Department of Economics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kobe and Osaka, along with Kyoto, the old capital and former Emperor’s residence, are major cities in Japan’s Kansai region, whose citizens speak a distinctive dialect that is quite different from standard Japanese.
		Kansai natives are quite proud of their heritage and culture, and continue to speak the Kansai dialect even when they move to other regions of the country.
		Another source of pride is the local baseball time, the Tigers, who last year upset the Tokyo Giants, and are leading the league so far this year.
	www.oberlin.edu /economic/faculty/Jinushi.htm (225 words)

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