Vocabulary

partner country; other country (in a dispute, arrangement, etc.); opponent (country)

transport administration; transportation administration

environmental education

moat; horizontal trench

Denki Bran; cocktail of brandy, gin, wine, curacao and herbs

host country (e.g. for a meeting); chair country

public records office; archives

Internet forum; Internet bulletin board

caretaker (at a zoo or aquarium); keeper; attendant; breeding staff

answer choices (e.g. for a questionnaire); answer frame

enemy general

Internet survey; online survey

Indo-European language(s)

India and Europe; Indo-European

user; customer

connecting flight

public school

private school

cash offering made on the occasion of one's visit to a shrine; money offering dedicated to the Shinto gods; fees for offering a branch of the sacred tree to the gods

snapping one's fingers; finger snap

Castanopsis cuspidata (species of chinquapin)

Castanopsis cuspidata (species of chinquapin)

Castanopsis sieboldii (species of chinquapin)

Castanopsis sieboldii (species of chinquapin)

event venue; event site

humbly inviting

leading members of a party; party executive; party leadership; senior party members

winepress

wringer (clothes); squeezer (fruit, etc.); press (grapes, etc.)

abolition of licensed prostitution

stock index futures trading

pressurized light-water reactor

affiliated company; affiliated business

narrative style of Bon dance song from eastern Osaka (often with improvised lyrics)

cease and desist order; stay order; discontinuance order; suspension order

relations with America; relationship with America

industrial waste treatment plant

industrial science and technology; industrial techniques

Bon Festival dance song

national, prefectural and other public universities and colleges