ward; borough; city (in Tokyo); district (e.g. electoral); section; zone (e.g. postal)
residential area; quarter; neighbourhood; neighborhood
melancholy; gloom; depression
scholar; academic; scientist; learned person; person of learning
vitality; energy; dynamism
to straighten oneself; to straighten one's clothes and one's posture; to adopt a more serious attitude
traffic; volume or quantity of goods transported
to cross; to go across; to go through; to cut across
bridge-building; cross-linking
fishing industry; fishery
what?!; what did you say?!; why?; what for?; anyone; anything
square kilometer; square kilometre
strategic resources; strategic materials
arrogant; haughty; insolent
strict; hidebound; inflexible; being a stickler for the rules; sticking hard and fast to the rules
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
nictitation; winking; palpebration; (arch.) moment; (arch.) instant; (arch.) second
forgery; counterfeiting; fabrication; falsification
bell (often a large hanging bell); chime
comfortable (to live in); snug; cosy; cozy
departure (from a base); takeoff; launch; starting (to move; of a car); start; moving off
congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly
disqualification; unfitness; noncompliance
election; selection; choice
to start (something); to start up; to launch (a business); to boot (a computer); to launch (a program)
member of an assembly; member of the Diet; member of parliament; member of Congress
House of Peers (Japan, Meiji constitution); House of Lords (UK)
House of Representatives (lower house of the National Diet of Japan)
superiority; predominance
recall (of an elected official); removal of an elected official from office though a petition and popular vote; recall (of a defective product)
to engage in; to participate in; to take part in; to be involved in
top-heavy; big-headed; overly-theoretical
identical; same; one and the same; fair; equal treatment; without discrimination
duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor); Japanese green pheasant
great plain; prairie; steppe; hahahaha; LMAO; ROFL
administrative organization