[九州, Jiǔ zhōu, ㄐㄧㄡˇ ㄓㄡ]division of China during earliest dynasties; fig. ancient China; Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands#21810[Add to Longdo]
[こくがく, kokugaku](n) (1) study of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture; (2) (arch) (See 大学・2) provincial school (under Japan's ritsuryo system and pre-Sui Chinese law); (P)#19677[Add to Longdo]
[きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ, kigyoutankikeizaikansokuchousa](n) (See 日銀短観・にちぎんたんかん) the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey[Add to Longdo]
[よしのじだい, yoshinojidai](n) (obsc) (See 南北朝時代) Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE)[Add to Longdo]
[よしのちょうじだい, yoshinochoujidai](n) (obsc) (See 南北朝時代) Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE)[Add to Longdo]
[こうみんかせいさく, kouminkaseisaku](n) imperialisation policy (esp. on Korea during Japan's colonial rule) (imperialization); policy of imperialisation[Add to Longdo]
[じんむいらい;じんむこのかた, jinmuirai ; jinmukonokata](adj-no, n-adv, n-t) since the era of the Emperor Jinmu; (first ever) since the dawn of Japan's history; unprecedented[Add to Longdo]
[たんかん, tankan](n) (abbr) (See 日銀短観・にちぎんたんかん) the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey[Add to Longdo]
[にちぎんたんかん, nichigintankan](n) (abbr) (See 企業短期経済観測調査・きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ) the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey[Add to Longdo]
[ひかくさんげんそく, hikakusangensoku](n) Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)[Add to Longdo]
[えた, eta](n) (vulg) (See 被差別部落民) one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses)[Add to Longdo]