noun:

• three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization of alcohol)

noun:

• Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take the ayes and noes

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• purificatory font at shrines and temples
• kitchen
• cupboard
• room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed
• vendor of drinking water
• building for taking refuge during a flood

noun:

• faculty of law and literature

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• drinking like a fish and eat like a horse; eating mountains of food and drink oceans of liquor - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• collection and distribution

noun:

• land, sea and air forces

noun:

• covering for the back of the hand and wrist

noun:

• companies exploiting debtors by forcing them to make expensive credit card purchases and buying the purchases at a fraction of the price

noun:

• peace and tranquility; peace and tranquillity

noun:

• anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide - 太宰治

noun:

• washing and rinsing; cleaning

noun:

• clouds and smoke; landscape

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

noun:

• good and bad fortune

noun:

• question and answer session - four character idiom

noun:

• sincerity and consideration

noun:

• flying clouds and drifting haze - four character idiom
• magnificent calligraphy; vivid penmanship

noun:

• ray gun

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• seeing and hearing; (from) one's own experiences

noun:

• administrative and civil code - archaism

expression:

• not distinguishing between what's good and bad; miso and shit are the same [literal] - idiom ➜ 味噌

noun / adjectival noun:

• dim and distant