Kansai-ben Lesson 1
Posted by harvey in Language, Osaka on 09. Apr, 2006 | 7 Comments
I’ve been living in Osaka for a while now, and starting to learn more about how to really construct the local dialect, Kansai-ben! Time for show and tell! Most of the Kansai-ben featured here was borrowed from a book written by an Osaka native and random encounters with my friends in Kansai. The Kansai dialect [...]
Sumo in Osaka
Posted by harvey in Culture, Osaka on 05. Apr, 2006 | 5 Comments
It’s Sumo time in Osaka! I’ve been in Japan for almost four years now, but this was my first time to a Sumo event. The one was held at Osaka Furitsu Taikukan. A quick look at the crowd told me that I wasn’t exactly the first foreigner ever to attend this amazing sporting event… I [...]
