noun:

• Special Higher Police (1911-1945); police unit controlling political thought and expression

noun / adjectival noun:

• to the satisfaction of all parties; all sides being happy and satisfied - four character idiom

noun:

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

noun:

• Sunna (collection of recorded words and actions of the prophet Muhammad); Sunnah - From Arabic "sunna"

noun:

• envelope containing betrothal money and given as part of a betrothal gift

noun:

• open shop system (employment of both unionists and non-unionists) Antonym: ユニオンショップ制

noun:

• primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens)

noun:

• Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces, 1868-1869)

noun:

• exposed skin between top of knee-high socks and hemline of skirt - manga slang

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of next year and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

godan ~む verb:

• to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path

noun:

• dialects of Japanese spoken in Western Tottori prefecture and Eastern Shimane prefecture ➜ 出雲弁

noun:

• boa catshark (Scyliorhinus boa, species from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico)

noun / adjectival noun:

• young orphan - archaism
• being alone and weak with no place to go to - archaism

noun:

• door made of one or several wooden planks and no door framework ➜ 桟唐戸

noun:

• period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform ➜ 大化の改新

noun:

• Treaty of Shimoda (1855); treaty initiating official relations between Russia and Japan

noun:

• Shughni (language spoken in Pamir mountains in Afghanistan and Tajikistan)

noun:

• break and run out in billiards (9 ball, 8 ball, etc.).

noun:

• clouds appearing before the wind starts to blow
• winds and clouds - esp. かぜくも ➜ 風雲【ふううん】

noun:

• placing a minor under protective detention; imposing a care and custody order

noun:

• pot dish with white flesh fish and shottsuru sauce (Akita regional dish) ➜ 塩汁【しょっつる】

noun:

• rasbora (small minnow-like fish of genera Boraras, Microrasbora, Rasbora, and Trigonostigma)

noun:

• three highest ranks in a ministry: minister, vice minister and parliamentary secretary ➜ 大臣【だいじん】・副大臣・政務官

noun:

• flag used at funerals showing the name and rank of the deceased