country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan)
border (between countries); national border
our country; our land; one's own country
countries; (various) nations
country; territory; domain; realm
all over the country; everywhere in the country; throughout the nation
your native country; your hometown; my home country (i.e. Japan); countryside; country; (arch.) daimyo's territory (Edo period)
land of the gods; Japan; Heaven
to manage a state; to govern a country
indigenous person; inhabitant of a country; local; native; local lords and samurai; daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
one's home; hometown; native place; birthplace
that country; (arch.) nirvana
dreamworld; dreamland; la-la land
national character; regional character
Alice in Wonderland (novel by Lewis Carroll); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Hades; land of the dead; netherworld
regional administrator (pre-Taika hereditary title)
national customs and manners; provincial song or ballad; waka (classical Japanese poetry, as opposed to Chinese poetry)
to betray one's country (to an enemy)
fairyland; never-never land
Toyo (former province located in present-day Ōita and Fukuoka prefectures; later split into Buzen and Bungo provinces); affluent country; rich country
land of the dead; netherworld; (arch.) distant country
Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine
one's home; one's native province
Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine
forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain (Edo period); change of constituency (for a politician); change of district
vast country; extensive territory
gods of the land; earthly deities
provincial dialect; local accent
visiting one's constituency; feudal lord's return to his estate
governor of a province (under the ritsuryō system); daimyo with a domain of one or more provinces (Edo period)
creation of Japan (by the gods Izanagi and Izanami); birthing of Japan
Hades; realm of the dead; the next world
boasting of one's hometown
land of everlasting summer
local dialect; vernacular; provincialism
Country of Na (a country that existed within Japan during the Yayoi period)
Izumo Fudoki (description of the culture, climate, etc. of Izumo province; 733 CE)
national or local pride; the pride of one's native place
province-wide uprising (Muromachi period)
the land outlasts the king; (lit.) a country may fall but its mountains and rivers remain
Kuna-koku; ancient Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period as a rival to Yamatai-koku
Hitachi Fudoki (description of the culture, climate, etc. of Hitachi province; ca. 720 CE)
local dialect; vernacular; provincialism; national language
the Land of Verdant Rice Plants; the Land of Abundant Rice; Japan
Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae (rare Japanese subspecies of sockeye salmon)
Hi (former province located in present-day Nagasaki, Saga and Kumamoto prefectures; later split into Hizen and Higo provinces)
unavailability of online content or services in one's country (e.g. due to licensing agreements); geo-blocking
Kuninotokotachi no Mikoto (eternal god of the land)
Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)
Kunitachi College of Music (abbr)
one's hometown; one's birthplace; one's native region
kanji "box" or "country" radical (radical 31); radical consisting of an enclosing box
Kunitachi College of Music
Bungo Fudoki (description of the culture, climate, etc. of Bungo province; 732 CE)
provincial maps of Japan (Edo period)
Fusa (former province located in present-day Chiba and Ibaraki prefectures)
Middle-earth (in J.R.R. Tolkien's works)
Chichibu (former province located in present-day Saitama Prefecture)
foreign country; province outside Kinai
country or region name used for people (in the Heian-period court)
country code top-level domain; ccTLD
Kuni no Katachi Kenkyūkai (faction of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan); Kan faction; Kan group
each ministry thinks only of its own good, but not of the good of the country; (lit.) when there are ministries, there is no country
our country; our land; one's own country
Empire (of Japan); the (Japanese) Empire; Japan
country bumpkin; someone from the same part of the country
god who controls a country's territory; god who rules a country
Land of Abundant Reed Plains and Rice Fields; Japan