Vocabulary Browser

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)

court rank and honors

the three grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday; pre-1927)

vanishing like mist

memorial service

person who is ready to comment on every subject

exchange professor

rice boiled with soy sauce and sake

Japan Self-Defense Forces

anniversary of a person's death (on which Buddhist commemorative rites, etc. are performed)