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chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata)

(the crime of) high treason

building with a gabled, hipped roof

paper store

reading (Chinese) without syntactical rearrangement into Japanese

Ursa Minor (constellation)

area of a piece of land

parasite volcano

experimental fishery station

conclusion (completion) of negotiations

leader of a group of juvenile delinquents

land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half

to be able to tell apart

the principle of not resuming debate on an item in the same Diet session in which it has been voted down

(power of) imagination

industrial reserve force

(highway) overpass

Marten's pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii)

collection of words or drawings by several people on a single sheet of paper

Japanese and Chinese literature

reading (someone else's letter, diary, etc.) surreptitiously

increasing the number (of trains, planes, etc.) in operation

catadromous fish (fish that migrates downstream, e.g. eel)

in traveling, a companion; in life, sympathy

to have a flag set (indicates the setting of a variable that determines, for example, how a game will end)

biennially

(Nara and Heian era) ministry of ceremonies

financial contributions to the UN made by member-nations

hetuvidya (ancient Indian logic for determining right from wrong, truth from falsehood, etc.)