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• All-Campus Joint Struggle League; student group active at universities throughout Japan between 1968 and 1969 - abbreviation ➜ 全学共闘会議

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• franponais; misuse of French in Japan (similar to Engrish)

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• Disposition of Ryukyu; forced assimilation of Okinawa into Japan, ending its tributary relations with China and abolishing the Ryukyu Kingdom (1872-1879)

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• Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947)
• Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of the Holy Roman Empire

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

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• three shop system; system employed by pachinko parlours of using separate shops to exchange prizes for cash as a way of circumventing Japan's gambling laws

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• imperial chrysanthemum crest; imperial seal of Japan

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• Emperor Jinmu; legendary founding Emperor of Japan

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• the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease); four big pollution diseases of Japan ➜ 水俣病・第二水俣病・四日市ぜんそく・イタイイタイ病

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• pseudo-foreign company; company based abroad but whose main country of business is Japan - Law term ➜ 外国会社

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• people living in the country; people living inland; Japanese in Japan proper; people living on Honshu

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• Japanologist; Japan scholar

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• inconsistently, horribly drawn animated film or cartoon; animated cartoon episode of lower picture quality than other episodes in the same series - slang

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• seatopia; experimental underwater habitat developed by Japan in the 1970s - From English "sea utopia"

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• Rip van Winkle effect (for a woman); feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to Japan (for a woman)

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• leniency policy; addition to Japan's antitrust law that allows lower fines for the first company involved in a cartel, etc. to admit their involvement - Law term ➜ 独占禁止法

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• J-Alert system; Japan's satellite-based disaster warning system ➜ 全国瞬時警報システム【ぜんこくしゅんじけいほうシステム】

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• yu; free reed wind instrument used in ancient China and Nara period Japan

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• Tokyo Skytree; broadcasting tower with observation deck in Sumida ward, Tokyo, Japan

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• broadcast marathon; transmitting sequential episodes of a radio or television series

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to continue for a long time; to undergo a repeated series

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• shoryuken; uppercut move in the Street Fighter video game series

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• kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan

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• Fronde; series of French civil wars (1648-1653)

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• general policy speech; speech held by the Prime Minister of Japan at the start of a special or extraordinary Diet session