Meanings

overseas posting

Temps Atomique International

queendom

khanate

khanate

debt-servicing costs

coastal route

selection by the state (esp. of a defense lawyer)

autonomous republic

province of Japan (under the ritsuryō system)

public sector (as opposed to private sector)

British royal family

state secrets

Islamic State

Chinese calendar

foreign corporation

Chinese Civil War (1927-1937, 1946-1949)

feudal lord who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)

Assistant Secretary of State

pseudo-foreign company