noun:

• Hades; underworld; realm of the dead; other world

noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

expression:

• so many men, so many ways; to each one's own; it takes all sorts to make a world - four character idiom

adverb / noun:

• the deepest bottom of the earth; never; not ... at all; on no account; for all the world; till doomsday

noun:

• hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; (having seen much of life) being well-versed in the ways of the world - four character idiom

noun:

• Far East Command; FEC; United States military headquarters in the western Pacific after World War II

noun:

• big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage ➜ 晴れの舞台

noun:

• condor (incl. other New World vultures of family Cathartidae)
• Andean condor (Vultur gryphus)

noun:

• occupying forces (esp. of the Allies in Japan after World War II)

noun / ~の noun:

• eventful times for the nation (world); the nation (world) being in turmoil; the storm clouds gathering in the land - four character idiom

noun:

• woolly monkey (any New World monkey of genus Lagothrix)

noun:

• Yamaraja (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead) - honorific language - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• woolly monkey (any New World monkey of genus Lagothrix) - obscure term ➜ ウーリーモンキー

noun:

• Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)

noun:

• Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to shake (e.g. the world); to shock

temporal noun:

• since the creation (of the world); since the dawn of history - four character idiom

noun:

• Siegfried Line (German defensive line built before World War II)

noun:

• Last Judgment (judgment of mankind to take place when the world ends, according to various religious traditions)

noun:

• peak oil (date when the peak of the world's petroleum production rate is reached)

noun:

• fire balloon (experimental weapon launched by Japan during World War II); balloon bomb

noun:

• blogosphere (the world of blogs and bloggers)

noun:

• inaw (ritual wood shaving stick used in Ainu prayers to the spiritual world.) - From Ainu

noun:

• Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• autopurificatory activity (in the natural world) - four character idiom