Meanings

one's birthplace

suspicion that something is inferior (game, product, etc.)

lighting a stage using border lights only

underground lake

exposed rafter

knitted fabric

economic geography

local newspaper

soy sauce

Sañjīva (one of the Eight Greater Hells)

Tokai earthquake (e.g. of 1498, 1605, 1707 and 1854)

anti-personnel land mine

fukuchilite

land owned by a Shinto shrine

company-owned land

territorial

Edo-period realm of the Japanese (as opposed to the Ainu) in southern Hokkaido

physical geography

Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement (1960)

local history