Osaka

is Japan's second city, producing the majority of the nation's entertainers in comedy, music, and film.

Often called Japan's second city, Osaka and its residents firmly distinguish themselves from their Tokyo brethren. Osaka produces the majority of the nation's entertainers, in comedy, music, and film.

is funkier, friendlier, and cruder than Tokyo, which must bear the weight of Japan's major institutions: its national government, financial center, bastions of high culture, and mass media.

Often called Japan's second city, Osaka and its residents firmly distinguish themselves from their Tokyo brethren. Osaka produces the majority of the nation's entertainers, in comedy, music, and film. It is considered funkier, friendlier, and cruder than Tokyo, which must bear the weight of Japan's major institutions: its national government, financial center, bastions of high culture, and mass media.

is the sensibility of Chicago's South Side and the eccentricities of pre-Katrina New Orleans crammed into one town.

If the sensibility of Chicago's South Side and the eccentricities of pre-Katrina New Orleans could be crammed into one town, you might approximate Osaka's place in the Japanese cityscape.

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