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  2. Kansai dialect - Wikipedia

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    The dialects of Kyoto and Osaka are known as Kamigata dialect (上方言葉, Kamigata kotoba, or Kamigata-go (上方語)), and were particularly referred to as such in the Edo period. The Kansai dialect is typified by the speech of Osaka, the major city of Kansai, which is referred to specifically as Osaka-ben. It is characterized as being both ...

  3. Siege of Osaka - Wikipedia

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    Called the "Osaka Campaign", it compiles all the battles of the Winter and Summer Campaigns. In the computer game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, the siege of Osaka castle is the setting of the first (and demo) mission. The siege of Osaka also is the main setting for the tv show, Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles.

  4. Japanese dialects - Wikipedia

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    The Western Japanese Kansai dialect was the prestige dialect when Kyoto was the capital, and Western forms are found in literary language as well as in honorific expressions of modern Tokyo dialect (and therefore Standard Japanese), such as adverbial ohayō gozaimasu (not *ohayaku), the humble existential verb oru, and the polite negative ...

  5. Keihanshin - Wikipedia

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    Osaka Keihanshin MMA as of 2015 with core cities in dark blue: Osaka, Sakai, Kyoto, Kobe. The Japan Statistics Bureau defines a Major Metropolitan Area or MMA (大都市圏) as a set of municipalities where at least 1.5% of the resident population aged 15 and above commute to school or work in a designated city (defined as the core area). [7]

  6. Kamigata - Wikipedia

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    Only one theatre remains in Kyoto, the Minami-za, while a handful remain in Osaka; the Naka no Shibai closed in 1999. Among the top actors onstage in Kamigata today are Nakamura Ganjirō III and his sons Nakamura Senjaku III and Nakamura Kanjaku V, Kataoka Hidetarō II, Bandō Takesaburō V and Kamimura Kichiya VI. A number of other Kamigata ...

  7. Kobe - Wikipedia

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    It is located in the Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. It is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. [2] The Kobe city centre is located about 35 km (22 mi) west of Osaka and 70 km (43 mi) southwest of Kyoto.

  8. List of football clubs in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Hannan University Club (Matsubara, Osaka) Kandai FC 2008 (Suita, Osaka) Kyoto Shiko Club (Kyoto, Kyoto) AC Middle Range (Higashiyodogawa, Osaka) Ococias Kyoto (Kyoto, Kyoto) Osaka Korean FC (Ikuno, Osaka) Route 11 (Kishiwada, Osaka) St. Andrew's FC (Izumi, Osaka)

  9. Keihan Electric Railway - Wikipedia

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    The name Keihan, which is also used for the Kyoto-Osaka region, is derived from the words Kyoto and Osaka in Japanese, and is a clipped compound of the names, with the reading of the characters changed: Kyōto (京都) and Ōsaka (大阪) are combined to Keihan (京阪), replacing the go-on reading kyō (京) and kun'yomi saka (阪) with the ...