"alibaba" <tsuo_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:6c5f1550.0306060847.47c72aed@posting.google.com...
> it would be very interesting indeed if
> urban Japan in the southern region has a different flavor than Tokyo. 
> maybe a call for me to visit Osaka in the coming winter.

If you ever believe that Tokyo and Kinai(Osaka-Kyoto region, "Kinai"
is a Chinese word&#30079;&#20869;&#65289;is just the same and we're
all homogeneous, it would be as silly as believing all those Chinese,
Hun-Mongolian-Chinese and Han-Chinese are all same as one ethnic and
homogeneous. Actually those Tokyo(Kanto) folks of the eastern part of
Japan are originally settled from Siberia 20 thousand years ago and
they are very similar to those Hun-Mongolians. But Kinai civilization
was greatly influenced by Han-Chinese civilization of Zui&#38539;.
Tokyo is more like Beijing that Hun-Mongolians built and Kinai is more
like Changan&#38263;&#23433;&#12288;Nanking of Old Han-Chinese capital
region.

Sorry if my Kanji didn't appear right.