The Asahai Shimbun Company
quick; nimble; agile; sharp; smart; clever
complete defeat; utter defeat; annihilation; to be completely defeated; to be beaten hollow
Asahi Shimbun (newspaper)
friend; companion; comrade; accompaniment; companion (e.g. book); complement
housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker
study; learning; tutorial
barrier; gate; seki (in go); mutual life
Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902-1923)
Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa); yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata); Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus); printing block; catalpa bow; catalpa medium
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
the modern era; present day
wind-resistant blade of grass; resistant idea (metaphorically)
Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japanese newspaper company)
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
mountain stream; valley; dale; wetlands; swamp; marsh
initial stages; first stage; early period; pioneer days; beginning; outset
field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
Kanji era (1087.4.7-1094.12.15)
wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza
recent past; recent times; early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)
meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club
research establishment; research institute; laboratory