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From: "anko eater" <anko@eater.com>
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Subject: Re: Kinai, not Kansai
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:46:16 +0900
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"anko eater" <anko@eater.com> wrote in message
news:cof5gk$5ci$1@t-nwall01.odn.ne.jp...
>
> "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
> news:30kiq5F2vh04hU6@uni-berlin.de...
> > anko eater wrote:
> > > "Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson" <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:dej6q05kfc65nbllbo4vn2d4dm7gab2afq@4ax.com...
> > >
> > >>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:11:06 +0900, "anko eater" <anko@eater.com>
> > >>wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>http://www.free-definition.com/Kinai.html
> > >>>
> > >>>Those who complain against the use of the term Kinai instead of
Kansai,
> > >
> > > such
> > >
> > >>>as Dave Fossett, see the definition above. It mentions that -
Nowadays,
> > >
> > > the
> > >
> > >>>region is usually referred to as Kinki or **erroneously** Kansai.
> Kansai
> > >>>vaguely means the "western part of Japan".
> > >>>
> > >>>Kaz was right.
> > >>
> > >>That's from Wikipedia, which anyone can go into and add whatever the
> > >>hell they like! It probably was Kaz himself who added that!
> > >
> > >
> > > Wrong. Someone else did it.
> > >
> > >
> > >>Oh, and if "Kansai" is wrong, better tell Kansai Denryoku, Kansai TV,
> > >>all the other newsreaders and weather forecasters who introduce their
> > >>news/weather from the Kansai, etc.
> > >
> > >
> > > Actually Kansai Denryoku and Kansai TV serve for the wider region than
> > > Kinai, which probably refers to the vague region Kansai including
Harima
> > > province, Kishu province, Tajima and Awaji province, and even Fukui
> > > prefecture.
> >
> > Don't worry. Ken Hyphen-Name is a hater of Kinai and Jews.
>
> Right, Those merchant class, the lowest class people of Japan in
> Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe(Nishinomiya, Ashiya) are exactly like what Jews in the
> Western society are like. However, not every Kinai region is such a
merchant
> and burakumin region. Nara pref., Kawachi(including Tondabayashi) Senshu
> region and Amagasaki region expect Takaraduka are just ordinary Japanese

                  correction: expect - except

> traditional region which still possess the good old Kina civilization.
> Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe region however, it's actually not the real Kinai region
> because most people there are non-Kinai people, the immigrants into Kinai
> who had settesd down into Kinai for last several centuries.

                 settled

>
> > Kevin
> > "This is the best election night in history."--Democratic National
> > Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, Nov. 2, 2004, just before 8 p.m. EST
>