It&#x27;s also &quot;Kansai, Japan&quot;, which is kind of like declaring that &quot;East Coast, USA&quot; is now hip.  Kansai, if the name doesn&#x27;t ring a bell, being the broad region that contains 7 Japanese prefectures (~states), the cities of Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe, and a total of around 22 million people.