Vocabulary

powdered milk

crushed rice; tiny pieces of rice

powdered medicine; powder

to verbally attack; to run down; to criticize severely; to speak disparagingly of

foolhardiness; daredevil courage

feces and urine; excreta; human waste

feces; faeces; excrement; stool

tank for holding excreta (often used for fertilizer); night soil vat; night soil reservoir

tank for holding human waste (used for fertilizer); night-soil reservoir; cesspool; cesspit

to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (boredom, sorrow, etc.); to drown (one's sorrows); to beguile (the time)

lucky shot; fluke

meaning of a sentence

Culture Day (national holiday; November 3)

school festival; cultural festival; annual open day school event showcasing student talent

humanities, social sciences, and fine arts; liberal arts

literary work

literary history; history of literature

literary prize

sentence pattern

literary criticism; book review

Renaissance

seventh month of the lunar calendar

publish in paperback

small-format paperback book; pocket paperback

corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text

character information; character data; textual data

character reader

character string

Manjushri; Manjusri; Bodhisattva that represents transcendent wisdom

Manjusri (bodhisattva)

responsibility for wording of an article

phrase; clause; basic linguistic unit in Japanese grammar

number of phrases

writing style

Minister of Education

grammatical

civilized society; civilised society

illiteracy

to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to inform (of)

hear-no-evil monkey (one of the three wise monkeys)