noun:

• people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced Continental culture to the Japanese

noun:

• taking a wife by kidnapping a woman passing by on the road - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to calculate the time required

noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

noun:

• four posts that used to support the roof over the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• box set at a gate of a home or near the front door, used for receiving deliveries of newspapers, mail, milk, etc.

noun:

• the Apostles

noun:

• Law Concerning the Promotion of Specific Non-Profit Organization Activities (1998); the NPO Law ➜ ＮＰＯ法

noun:

• list of names of the dead
• Book of Souls (in the Yasukuni Shrine)

noun:

• (at) the beginning of the New Year; early in the New Year

noun:

• Japan, the United States and South Korea

expression:

• before the end of this year

noun:

• Department of the Navy

expression:

• idea that all things in the universe lack their own unchangeable substances - Buddhism term ➜ 四法印【しほういん】

noun:

• emperor of the time

expression:

• the pen is mightier than the sword

noun:

• twenty-seventh of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• command sanctioned by the emperor; imperial command

noun:

• the appropriate person; competent person - four character idiom

noun:

• The Communist Manifesto

noun:

• blending of the classical and colloquial styles - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• doing or receiving something good by accident or through the invitation of somebody else; being pulled to the Zenkoji temple by a cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the principle of pleasing everyone; make-everybody-happy policy - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• peerless (unparalleled, matchless, unequaled) in the country - four character idiom

noun:

• food of the mountains (wild game, mountain vegetables, mushrooms, etc.); fruits of the land ➜ 海幸