Vocabulary Browser

International Dairy Federation

International Christian University

International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities

International Neuro-Ophthalmology Society

National Institute for Environmental Studies

Association for Promotion of International Cooperation

International Dairy Foods Association

Kokushi Taikei (history text; orig. ed. by Taguchi Ukichi, pub. 1897-1904; rev. ed. by Kuroita Katsumi, pub. 1929-1964)

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

International Institute for Environment and Development

alliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty, and of individual Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty)

co-prosperity sphere

yellowish brown

see-no-evil monkey (one of the three wise monkeys)

retirement at one's own request

boxed lunch bought at a station (often a local specialty)

success or failure (in examinations)

master clock

three cardinal virtues (wisdom, benevolence and valour (valor))

colored thread

fiction writer

pressure regulator

magnetic disk

to gag someone

profound knowledge

House of Peers (Japan, Meiji constitution)

counter for long and narrow things such as guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars

to affect

circular notice (esp. in binder form; passed around households within a neighbourhood association, etc.)

suspected case (of a disease)