opposite; reverse; contrary
babies born on October 10, supposedly conceived on New Year's Day; normal gestation time (i.e. 9 months)
red flag; Red Flag (Communist Party newspaper)
Chinese Communist Party; Chinese Communists; Communist China
declaration of independence
1932 Theses (Comintern policy documents urging overthrow of Japan's imperial and metayage systems)
course (e.g. of lectures); academic university unit (professor, lecturers, etc.)
mountain river; mountain stream
Iwanami Shoten, Publishers (publisher)
Empire of Japan (Japan's official name under the Meiji Constitution)
Fukumoto Kazuo (1894-1983)
pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely
skeleton; skeletal structure; build; framework
going through; going via; going by way of
present; current; in operation
subordinate; dependent; subsidiary; subservient
Eda Saburou (1907.7.29-1977.5.22)
Nagasu Kazuji (1919.7.28-1999.5.4)
structural reform; restructuring
stick-to-itiveness; perseverance; radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily); root; indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs)
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
Tokugawa period (i.e. the Edo period, 1603-1867)
Song dynasty (China, 960-1279); Sung dynasty
neo-Confucianism (based on the teachings of Zhu Xi and his followers)