Shimane prefecture (Chūgoku area)
self-determination; suicide
coach (horse-drawn); carriage; wagon; cart
passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage; passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing
to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize
general; popular; common; typical
to go past; to pass; to pass by
discontent; dissatisfaction; complaint; grievance
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
internal strife; infighting; internal conflict
digression; many divergences
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
political strife (antagonism, conflict)
abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures (1871)
Constitution of the Empire of Japan; Meiji Constitution
revolution; cataclysm; drastic change
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
simultaneous; all at once
abandoning (hope, plans); giving up
incremental; step-by-step; gradual; stepwise
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence
end; conclusion; last; final; no sooner than; once
finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little
implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization
district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society
postbox; mailbox; post; position; post (e.g. goalpost); post- (e.g. post-Cold War)
internal or domestic affairs
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
centralized authoritarian rule; centralised authoritarian rule
prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)
autonomy (philosophy); self-control
command; order; dictation; nth year in the Reiwa era (May 1, 2019-)
revision; amendment; alteration
local (governmental) autonomy
Movement for Civic Rights and Freedom (Meiji era); Freedom and People's Rights Movement