Hokuriku region (of Honshu; incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)
pointed end; tip; point; forefront; vanguard; spearhead
house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building
university; college; former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)