kansai

Bemmu gave me a lot of advice at the last HN Kansai meetup to find more customers...

But let's stop staying Kansai people don't usually eat natto, when it's plain to see that's not the case.

There's also a meetup for HN readers in the kansai area of Japan if you're visiting there.

Maybe it wasn't common in Kansai 100 years ago and that's how the myth started.

I think the proposal is to tunnel under the Japan Alps from the outskirts of the Kanto (where Tokyo is) to the outskirts of the Kansai and Osaka.

'In 1993, Atsushi Ohori extended the Standard ML of New Jersey compiler at Kansai Laboratory of Oki Electric, and named the experimental prototype SML# of Kansai.

I lived in Kansai for years, and there were like a dozen brands of natto on supermarket shelves, everywhere.

We're in the Kansai area, were you with the JET program by chance?

I take the train in Japan every week for work between Kansai and Kantou, and it takes about 3 hours.

Not really new, I have seen someone talk about it in HN Kansai about a year and a half ago.

There's a HN Kansai that's pretty tech and startup oriented.

If you get a chance, I highly recommend checking out the HN Kansai group.

Such as the insanely informal Kansai dialect below: お前、何をやてねん？！あほやで！ "What are you doing?!

Enough with the "Kansai people don't eat natto" thing, that's just not true.

My "source" is 13 years in Japan living with Japanese wife, children & extended family:-) But I'm not going to argue - for example, it may just be that here in Kansai we use them differently.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the less formal Kansai local term: "oh-KIni" おおきに: It is also used as "Thank you" in casual situations, but my understanding is that it is literally "Excuse me".

Actually there is already one in Tokyo (HN Tokyo) and they started doing their events before us in Kansai.

And in case you did not know, many large companies are leaving Kansai.

Like such a metropolis actually needs policy help to keep ahead of Kansai.