minor; small; minor (key, scale, etc.); the minor leagues (US baseball)
pop; signage; display; billboard (as used to decorate arcade games)
private person; individual
micro-; micro; minibus; microfilm
just cause; good reason; pretext; duty (to one's country, sovereign, etc.)
one's principles and position
intensiveness; collecting; summarizing; putting together
to charm; to attract; to fascinate; to entice
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on
assistance; help; aid; support; reinforcement
escape; break-out; prolapse; proptosis
(college) president; secretary-general
Tokyo Metropolis (prefecture); Tokyo metropolitan area
low-ranking soldier; graduation; moving on (from); outgrowing (something); low-ranking samurai (1870-1872); death (of a noble, etc.)
graduate school of sciences
coursework completed without degree; withdrawal from a course having completed the coursework
assistant; helper; assistant (to a professor)
assistant professor; associate professor
learned society; scientific society; academy; academic meeting; academic conference
Ministry of the Environment
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
Association of National Universities; National University Association
Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)
every place; various places
gorilla (Gorilla spp., esp. western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla)
outdoors; outside; open air; fields; outskirts; suburbs
elucidation; explication; explaining; unravelling; clarification; understanding
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
interesting; fascinating; intriguing; amusing; funny; comical
to make progress; to develop; to evolve (method, style, etc.)
anthropologist; ethnologist
leading person; foremost figure
to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly