noun:

• first obon following the death of a family member

noun:

• conformism; following the crowd; swimming with the tide; me-tooism - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• reallocating private land to public use (e.g. parks, roads); reduction in the amount of private land following a land reallocation; reducing the area of private land to reallocate it to public uses

noun:

• turning evil into good through indoctrination; following the teachings of Buddha to turn the world's evil into good - Buddhism term

noun:

• objective complement; noun or adjective following and modifing the direct object

noun / ~する noun:

• going along with something; following the crowd
• treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner

noun:

• Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

suffix / conjunction:

• as it is bound to (happen); following the natural course
• though possible as it may be

noun:

• committing every evil; being given to evil ways; following the path of evil - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• following (in the footsteps of)
• catching up with; coming level with

adverb:

• along the road (e.g. following its curves without turning off at any intersection); along the street

noun:

• regular kanbun (following the rules of classical Chinese grammar)

counter:

• counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system) - archaism

noun:

• yunwei (secondary vowel or consonant following the primary vowel of a Chinese character)

noun:

• form of poetry found on the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara (following a 5-7-5-7-7-7 moraic pattern)

noun / adverbial noun / suffix noun:

• degree; amount; grade; standard; of the order of (following a number); about; approximately