noun:

• Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011); Tohoku earthquake; Sendai Earthquake; Great East Japan Earthquake

noun:

• in all directions - four character idiom

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - archaism ➜ 唐楽

expression:

• everybody doing well (e.g. purchaser, buyer and society); three-way satisfaction; all three parties doing well

noun:

• inside; your wife

noun:

• the opposite direction; the other way

noun:

• day laborer (in construction, etc.); day labourer - obscure term

noun:

• stochastic differential equation - Mathematics term

noun:

• line progression - IT term

noun:

• place where one spends the night to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction - the へ is pronounced as え in this word - archaism ➜ 方違え・方塞がり

noun:

• nonlinear differential equation - Mathematics term ➜ 線形微分方程式【せんけいびぶんほうていしき】

noun:

• theatre staff who deals with the audience (e.g. ticket-taker, usher) ➜ 裏方

expression:

• what action to take; what to do with oneself

noun:

• Kyoto-Shiga district

noun:

• policy decision

noun:

• methodological individualism

noun:

• rural area

noun:

• your acquaintance - honorific language
• people who know - honorific language

noun:

• left-hand match; begins-with match; matching a sub-string with the beginning of a field - IT term ➜ 部分一致・後方一致

noun:

• San-you region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, southern Yamaguchi and sometimes western Hyogo prefectures)

noun:

• graph paper; section paper

noun:

• Poisson's equation

noun:

• cubic close packing; cubic closest packing

noun:

• functional equation

noun:

• Hokuriku region of Honshu (incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)