border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
land route; overland route; by land; overland
contention; competition; rivalry; quarrel
investigation to determine the cause (of); tracing something back to its origin
to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)
emergency meeting; urgent meeting; emergency session; emergency conference
police box; koban; alternation; alternating (current, stress, etc.)
leading aristocrat; great house; grand seigneur; boyar
to make clear; to clarify; to disclose; to make public
day after day; day by day
presence (of a nobleman, the emperor, etc.); outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade); My Lord; My Lady
to be embarrassed; to lose face
tachibana orange (Citrus tachibana)
to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
branch office; police box; local police station
remodelling; remodeling; reorganization; reorganisation
policeman; cop; walking in a circle (dog trick); (arch.) rounds (doctor, police beat, etc.); (arch.) vegetables that accompany rice (secret language of court ladies)
to sum up; to summarize; to summarise
subdivision; segmentation; fractionalization; fragmentation
Sagittaria trifolia var. edulis (edible variant of threeleaf arrowhead)
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
ostensible (surface) reason
matter of life or death; life-and-death problem
industrialized nation; industrialised nation
neighbouring country; neighboring country; adjacent country
citizens of one's own country; fellow countrymen; compatriots
to build (a nest); to nest; to haunt (a place); to hang out (somewhere)
members; member; constituent