Throughout history, spoken Japanese has evolved in hundreds of different ways, creating dialects in each region. The two most spoken were the Edo and the Kinai dialect. Once Meiji was restored to the ...

Of all Japan's dialects, the Kansai dialect, or Kansai-ben, is most well-known and likely the one you'll hear of most often. Spoken often within comedy TV shows, it is an interesting, casual and ...