bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
wheat; barley; oat (oats)
Japanese name (often of plants and animals, and written in kana)
shōchū; Japanese spirit distilled from sweet potatoes, rice, etc.
traditional food; ancestral food
medical and pharmaceutical products; medicinal supplies; drugs; pharmaceuticals; medicine
bio-; biotechnology; VAIO (Sony brand-name)
extinction; annihilation; destruction
pasteurization (at a low temperature); pasteurisation
invention; intelligent; clever; (arch.) making sense (of something); (arch.) understanding
natto bacteria (Bacillus subtilis var. natto)
through; throughout; in the course of; all over or throughout (e.g. a place)
Awa (former province located in present-day Tokushima Prefecture)
equality; impartiality; evenness
pessimism due to decadent-age theory
entering Nirvana; death (of Buddha, high priest, saint, etc.)
political situation; political affairs
turmoil; chaos; confusion