All-Campus Joint Struggle League; student group active at universities throughout Japan between 1968 and 1969
blockade; lockdown; sealing off (an area); freezing (funds)
original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal
to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit
side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time
doctor's degree; doctorate; PhD
acquisition; obtaining; gaining possession; purchase
to lean (to one side); to incline; to be unbalanced (e.g. diet); to be unduly weighted towards; to be partial; to be biased
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
discord; (on) bad terms (with)
cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time
surroundings; environs; circumference
public safety; public welfare
mark; symbol; to mark; to put a mark on; trademark; paying attention to; focusing on
though; notwithstanding; although
equality; impartiality; evenness
left-wing (politics); left wing (of a bird, aircraft, formation, etc.); left flank; left field
expert; learned person; doctor; PhD; instructor at the imperial court (ritsuryo period); pitch and length marks (to accompany a Buddhist liturgical chant, etc.)
art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
training; drill; practice; discipline
north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku
picking; collecting; harvesting
traditional winter hunters in Tōhoku; matagi
grandfather; male senior-citizen
imagination; supposition; virtual; potential (enemy)
to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off
aloof; proudly independent; standing apart; solitary
nothing; naught; nought; un-; non-
class society; class-based society; hierarchical society
poverty; penury; need; shortage; lack; want
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
periodic; regular; routine
collaborator; cooperator; coworker; ally
necessities of life (food, clothing and shelter)
having slow reflexes; being nonathletic; person who is not athletic
to be dyed; to be tainted; to be infected; to be stained
to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce