Vocabulary Browser

prefectural governor

lord of a manor

talk

decreasing land prices

temporary boom

children do not know how dear they are to their parents (and therefore act selfishly)

palsy

general (civil engineering and construction) contractor

intermediate

seismology

blooming late

centralization of power

central committee

method of learning through repetition which involves multiplying and other calculations carried out on a 10-by-10 grid of numbers

field affiliated with a shrine (the tax-exempt proceeds of its harvest going to pay for shrine operations)

spare no effort while you are young

to admire greatly

middleman

controversy over school textbooks (i.e. history texts avoiding reference to Japanese military, etc. acts)

number of parliamentary seats required in order for the ruling coalition to chair all standing committees and pass bills without the support of other parties

combined vaccination for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus

militia

marginal seal (special seal affixed into the margins of an official document to indicate that any later revisions to the document are valid)

reverse-imported vehicle (esp. high-displacement motorcycles meant for sale outside Japan)

number line (e.g. on a graph)

Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)

English-Japanese (esp. translation, interpretation, etc.)

study hard while you are young

halfway up (down) a mountain

all-night vigil over a body