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Kansai ( literally west of the tollgate ) in its original usage refers to the land west of the Osaka Tollgate (), the border between Yamashiro Province and Ōmi Province ( present-day Kyoto and Shiga prefectures ).
( see Kamigata ) Like all regions of Japan, the Kansai region is not an administrative unit, but rather a cultural and historical one, which emerged much later during the Heian Period after the expansion of Japan saw the development of the Kanto Region to the east and the need to differentiate what was previously the center of Japan in Kansai emerged.
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