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Kankei is used rather literally in Japanese for "connection", without the heavy overloading of the Chinese term: "The build is broken, did your push break it?"

• ekianjo 10y ago
  It can be used as ビジネス関係 too so I am not sure what your point is. 関係 has tons of implications in Japanese. The expression 関係がよい is also very common in Japanese.
  • jpatokal 10y ago
    Simply put, if you have guanxi in China with somebody, you can call in a favour from then. But if you have 関係 with somebody in Japan, then that simply means there's some sort of relationship (vendor/customer, former schoolmates, whatever), not necessarily the kind that lets you call in favours.
    • Chathamization 10y ago
      > But if you have 関係 with somebody in Japan, then that simply means there's some sort of relationship (vendor/customer, former schoolmates, whatever), not necessarily the kind that lets you call in favours. That's the same as Chinese, though. If you want to say two people you'd use guanxi (”关系不好“ "guanxi bu hao" “have a bad relationship"). Even your above example is used in pretty much the same way guanxi is used. Here's an example from the Baidu entry on guanxi: "小王跟这件事没有关系" "Xiao Wang has no connection to that thing." From what you write, it sounds like the Japanese use of the word is fairly similar to the Chinese use of it.