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land given to someone who has rendered a distinguished service (ritsuryō system)

men pressed into forced labor (ritsuryō system)

white paper lantern used at funerals

total order (relation)

immune substance

contagious bovine pleuropneumonia

ozone layer depletion

director of the dazaifu (ritsuryō system)

distinguished professor

wage laborer

blind official who specialized as a musician, masseur or acupuncturist (abolished in 1871)

bath at a temple for the poor, sick and prisoners

binary operation

progeny test (for beef cattle)

prohibited item

peasants chosen to carry the payment of a tax (in kind) to the capital (ritsuryō system)

subatomic particle

discriminant analysis

starched white uniform worn by menservants of government officials

old and lightly handicapped men (ritsuryō system)

load-following operation (e.g. of a power plant)

beautiful mountain

ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)

fiber-glass reinforced plastics

welfare for the disabled

Artinian ring

loan with interest made to farmers

investing in oneself

men 17-20 years, subject to a quarter of the obligations of older men (ritsuryō system)

award for distinguished service