Meanings

wetland

sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway (March 20, 1995)

stone statue of Jizo (often found along roads)

San'yō region

Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)

judicial region

Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)

Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)

San'in region

Kyushu region (sometimes incl. the Nansei Islands)

local currency

Local Autonomy Act

prefecture-level city (of China)

naraka (hell) realm

Antarctic region

Earth light (illumination of the moon by light reflected from the Earth)

dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva)

wintering spot (e.g. of a migrating bird)

lichen

groundwork