fierce (fight, competition, etc.); severe; hot; hard; bitter; keen
international; worldwide; cross-border; cosmopolitan
finance; financing; credit transacting; monetary; financial; credit
tourist trade; travel industry; tourist business; tourist enterprise
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)
to dedicate; to make an offering; to supply; to store; to finish; to bring to a close; to restore (something to its place)
state sovereignty; national sovereignty
contradiction; inconsistency
unsatisfying; disappointing; abrupt; not enough; too quick; too short
northwestern part; the northwest
congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly
system; organization; organisation; imperial command; laws; regulation
salt damage (from seawater, sea air, etc.)
poverty; penury; need; shortage; lack; want
foreign currency; foreign money; foreign exchange; foreign goods; imported goods
suicide attack; kamikaze attack
millennium; one thousand years; (fig.) long time
800,000; eight hundred thousand
basic tone; underlying tone; trend; keynote
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.); to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, etc.); to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging, etc.)
splendour; splendor; pompousness; magnificence
variation; rogue (something)
to prick; to stab; to poke; to prod; to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with
action; operation; effect; function
to become dim; to become blurred
weathering; fading (of memories); efflorescence
state capital; provincial capital; county town
to govern; to manage; to subdue
green; greenery (esp. fresh verdure)
gem; jewel; precious stone
fur; skin; pelt; kanji "fur" radical