horse; horse racing; promoted bishop
secretary (government); director; chief
mission; errand; task; duty; obligation
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on
reclamation (e.g. wasteland); cultivation; development; pioneering; opening up (e.g. new market); breaking new ground
to recommend; to endorse (e.g. a candidate); to infer (from); to deduce; to think (something) through; to ponder deeply
political measures; policy
excavation; cutting; digging
basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation
every place; various places
great; grand; extensive; large-scale
ground-breaking; revolutionary; unprecedented; epoch-making
Sapporo (city in Hokkaido)
loyalty; devotion; fidelity; inspector of the Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (ritsuryo system)
width; breadth; freedom (e.g. of thought); latitude; gap; difference (e.g. in price)
ken (6 shaku, approx. 1.818 m); counter used to number the gaps between pillars
opening (of a new road, railway, etc.); going into operation (e.g. telephone communication); beginning services; reopening (e.g. a road to traffic); resumption of services
primeval forest; virgin forest
peatland; peatlands; peat bog
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
profound; deep; deep (of a cave, etc.); innermost; interior
wedge; chock; linchpin; tie; bond
east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
crossing; traversing; traversing horizontally; passing west to east (or east to west); cutting horizontally
snowy mountain; permanently snow-covered mountain; pile of snow; Himalayas
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
land route; overland route; by land; overland
along the road; at the side of the road
transplanting (a plant); transplant; transplantation (of an organ, tissue, etc.); transplant; embryo transfer; embryo transplant
citizen; resident; person; user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere)
to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to become complicated
growing thickly; growing densely
to be temperate in; to refrain; to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number); to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for
precipitous; rugged; inaccessible; grim; severe; stern
precipice; cliff; flat head
to border; to fringe; to hem; to edge
valley (with a river running through it); gorge; ravine; canyon
prefectural office (Hokkaido)
wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)
fat; fatty; grand; magnificent; excellent