noun:

• ceremony held at the end of a school term

noun:

• the sound of the kana "n"

noun:

• passing the civil service examination

noun:

• relief work for the unemployed

noun:

• the 10 precepts - Buddhism term ➜ 十戒

~の noun:

• against the rules; breaking etiquette; illegal

expression / noun:

• tragedy of the commons - Economics term

noun:

• the Imperial Japanese Army - obsolete term

noun:

• the study or science of religion; religious studies

noun:

• souvenir from the mountains

noun:

• the eight gods who preside over the lucky/unlucky directions of the koyomi for each year

noun:

• Order of the Precious Crown, Butterfly

noun:

• catarrh of the pulmonary apex; pulmonary apicitis; inflammation of the mucous of the upper lung - Medicine term

noun:

• burning off the fields

noun:

• services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul - four character idiom

noun:

• women in the sciences; female scientists ➜ 理系女

noun:

• taking the family along

noun:

• people close to the head man

noun / ~する noun:

• tour round the country (Japan) (visiting from province to province) - four character idiom

noun:

• costume for women serving in the inner palace (Heian period) - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• the moon; lunar

noun:

• the War On Terror

noun:

• the whole world

noun:

• Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

noun:

• being the only loser; losing by oneself