village; hamlet; settlement
valid; effective; yuko (judo)
engine; agency; organisation; system; facility
to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject
to save face; to show deference; to make someone look good
Fukushima (city, prefecture)
after death; posthumously
Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se
village; hamlet; countryside; country
another kind; distinct species; variety
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
landowner; landlord; landlady
economy; economics; finance; (one's) finances; being economical; economy
model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.); type; style; mold (mould); template; kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)
system; institution; organization; organisation
starvation; famine; hunger
to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out
staff officer; military staff; adviser; counselor; counsellor
status; position; method; way; rule; regulation
origin; birthplace; descent; lineage; ancestry
to board; to embark on; to get into (a car); to march into; to enter
protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
geographic features; divination based on the lay of the land
divination; fortune-telling; mantic
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
present (brought by a visitor); gift
drawer unit (next to a desk); return
one color; one colour; one article; same tendency; everyone being caught up in the same thing
topographic map; elevation map
terrain; geographical features; topography
sea level; (surface of) sea
metre; meter; meter; gauge
diluvium; diluvial formation
below sea level; undersea; beneath the waves