noun:

• the eight ministries (under the Grand Council of State of the ritsuryo system) ➜ 太政官

noun:

• mode (musical mode, mode of probability distribution, state of physical system)
• fashion - From French "mode"

godan ~す verb:

• to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across
• to go over (e.g. with audience)
• to pass time (e.g. a winter)
• to surpass; to be better than; to exceed - often 超す
• to move house
• to go; to come - honorific language ➜ お越し

noun:

• man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryo system)

noun:

• self-serve system for toothbrushes, razors, etc. in business hotels - From English "amenity viking" ➜ バイキング

noun:

• Shared Early Warning; SEW; radar and satellite-based system for setecting missile, etc. attacks
• early warning information on extreme weather - abbreviation ➜ 異常天候早期警戒情報

noun:

• banishment (to a nearby province); the least severe of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

counter:

• counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); a noun read using its on-yomi

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term

noun:

• finger Braille; system of communicating with the deaf-blind in which the receiver's fingers are tapped like a Braille typewriter ➜ 点字【てんじ】

noun:

• inspector (third highest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 判官【はんがん】
• (noh) old man ➜ 翁【おきな】
• white ash (of charcoal)

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• (former) Ministry of Finance (1869-2001) ➜ 財務省
• Ministry of the Treasury (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• Ministry of Justice (1869-1871 CE) ［ぎょうぶしょう］
• Ministry of Justice (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• tidal hypothesis (of the origin of the solar system); near-collision hypothesis

noun:

• stipend given to a designated person, such as a noble, and which was paid by a designated household (ritsuryo system) ➜ 封戸

noun:

• lower government office (ritsuryo system)
• servant of a higher ranking person (during the middle ages); retainer
• servant of an urban family
• serf ➜ 被官百姓

noun:

• banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• in-car announcement (on a train); PA system on a train

noun:

• soryo system; organization of regional landholding families based on divided inheritance under the leadership of a main heir, usu. the eldest son (Kamakura period)

noun:

• "benefit-your-locality" tax scheme; system in which taxpayers can choose to divert part of their residential tax to a specified local government

noun:

• responsibility-taking system; taking responsibility

noun:

• Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang) ［こくふ］ - abbreviation ➜ 国民政府
• provincial office (under the ritsuryo system); provincial capital ➜ 律令制

expression / noun:

• five-day workweek system; five-day school-week - sometimes 完全週休２日制
• having two days off in at least one week of a month

noun:

• heater; heating apparatus; heating arrangement; heating equipment; heating system; room heater