Meanings

modality

way of describing

law decreeing rules for daimyo during Tokugawa shogunate

law and politics

slope

subjunctive equivalent

Government Paperwork Elimination Act (USA)

The Police Duties Execution Act

independent administrative corporation (institution, agency)

unscrupulous business practices

Eight Principles of Yong

fraudulent sale of worthless land (e.g. by overstating its future value)

unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items

work-at-home scheme (scam in which the offer of a highly paid work-at-home job is used to lure victims into paying substantial upfront costs)

amateurish way of doing business

total (utter) darkness

unscrupulous business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience

clumsy person

piggybacking marketing

royal decree