house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building
right to know; right to access information
preschool education; early childhood education
forcefulness of speech; influential voice
junction; crossroads; division point; parting of ways
remains; traces; (the sorrow of) parting; end
various countries; several countries
complication; intricacy; involution; to become complicated; to get entangled
merger; joining into one; amalgamation; melding; merging; annexation
dominion; territory; possession
to shave off; to scrape off
birth; creation; formation
to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails
edge; brink; verge; time; moment of
annexation; merger; swallowing up
dispatch of troops; despatch of troops; expedition
revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance
without a history; historyless; unhistoried; unstoried
both countries; Ryōgoku (area of Tokyo)
being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); thinking ill of a person based on a misunderstanding; unjustified resentment caused by a misunderstanding; responding to kindness with resentment
to mind; to care; to worry
problematical statement; controversial statement
break room; lounge (e.g. in an onsen); resting room
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
to be discouraged; to shrink from
recess; break; breathing spell
to get to know each other; to make acquaintance
to speak; to talk; to mediate; to act as a go-between; to put in a good word (for someone)
bright; intelligent; clever; smart
to be suspicious (of something or somebody)
inclination; slant; slope; bevel; list; dip
to give flowers as a gift
world peace; peace of the world
to burn with combativeness
suddenly; all of a sudden; abruptly
one's mind; one's heart; one's intention
three countries; Three Kingdoms (in China, 220 CE-280 CE); Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE-668 CE); (arch.) Japan, China and India; (arch.) Japan, Korea and China