March; third month of the lunar calendar
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
western Japan (usu. Chūbu region and westward)
parting; separation; farewell
eastern Japan (usu. east of the Chūbu region)
meeting; rendezvous; encounter; confluence
graduation ceremony; commencement
time; season; period; phase; stage
Aomori (city, prefecture)
Golden Week (early-May holiday season in Japan)
to go on a trip; to go out to play; to go and visit (a friend)
memory; sense; experience
care; looking after; repair; (police) raid; crackdown
discriminatory; discriminative
to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)
row of cherry trees (lining a street)
in the morning; during the morning
non-aggression pact; non-aggression treaty
to tie; to bind; to bear (fruit); to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to connect (two distant places); to close tightly
staff; member (club, society, etc.)
state of things; state of affairs; condition; situation; circumstances
instability; insecurity; crankiness
Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)
one-thousandth; 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun); 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari); old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)
advantage; benefit; profit; interest
influence; power; might; strength; potency; force
(establish) friendly (cordial) relations (with, between); (form) friendship (e.g. with a nation)
a head (e.g. taller or shorter); noticeable difference (in competitors' results)
to slip out; to steal out; to excel; to stand out
the whole world; the whole country; society; the public; supremacy over a nation; government of a country; having one's own way
to knead; to mix with fingers; to quibble; to argue for argument's sake
mochi; (sticky) rice cake
self-abasement; humility; self-depreciation
the House of Tokugawa; the Tokugawas
just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
taking refuge; finding shelter; evacuation; escape; seeking safe haven
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
ratio; proportion; percentage
simply; merely; only; solely