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visiting a shrine or temple to give thanks for the fulfilment of a prayer

motorized two-wheeled vehicle (with a displacement of less than 50cc)

to begin to fall (of rain, snow, etc.)

laziness

movements for sending young people to the countryside in China (1937, 1957, 1968)

wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead)

Vernal Equinox Day (national holiday; March 20 or 21)

entrance (for passengers at a train station)

this spring

verse form from the Heian and Kamakura periods consisting of 4 lines each divided into two parts of 7 and 5 syllables

Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568)

to resume breathing

TA-Q-BIN (express home delivery service provided by Yamato Transport)

ousting of vice-minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and his supporters from the Meiji government (1881)

collectibles

Three Alls Strategy (Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War)

so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry)

time for reporting to work

divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century)

maternity and gynaecology department (gynecology)

making (a report, plan, contract, etc.)

mixed on-kun kanji reading

the 1,026 kanji taught in Japanese elementary schools

period of rapid growth (especially Japan's period of rapid economic growth after WWII)

the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)

to have something (likely) come to mind

superscription (on a letter, parcel, etc.)

to use up

to write (a person) up (in a positive or negative light)

to receive favor