Meanings

an amateur as good as a professional

parents' ability (or inability) to let go of their children

not up with the times

customers losing interest in product or shop

disillusionment with politics

photodissociation

detached building

disintermediation

aliteracy

otherworldliness

long distance relationship

those who meet must part (suggesting the transient nature of this life)

strongly attached to each other

separation of church and state

separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period)

Narita divorce

being scattered in all directions

meeting and parting

trend to move away from rural areas

dissociation