Nihongo no Kita, Nishi, Minami, Higashi --- The Japanese Language of North, West, South, and East

In the Japanese language are many regional dialects. Just like in America where people from the south use different words and have different accents and people on the east coast like Boston or people from Chicago use different words. It can be as similar as Pop versus Soda and Sub sandwich versus Hoagie to as confusing as using “pie” for pizza. Even slang is different in different parts of America and it is the same in Japan. The main dialect continues to be the Tokyo Dialect which is pushed through media but this does not mean that the other two main dialects, Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe) and Kyushu (the southern islands) are not real or correct Japanese.