PL教団 | [ピーエルきょうだん, pi-eru kyoudan] (n) (See パーフェクトリバティー教団) Church of Perfect Liberty (religious group founded in Japan in 1924) |
トモダチ作戦;友達作戦 | [トモダチさくせん(トモダチ作戦);ともだちさくせん(友達作戦), tomodachi sakusen ( tomodachi sakusen ); tomodachisakusen ( tomodachi sakusen )] (n) Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami |
パーフェクトリバティー教団 | [パーフェクトリバティーきょうだん, pa-fekutoribatei-kyoudan] (n) Church of Perfect Liberty (religious group founded in Japan in 1924) |
一増一減 | [いちぞういちげん, ichizouichigen] (n) {Buddh} 16,800,000-year period over which a human lifespan increases from ten years to 84,000 years (by one year per century) and then decreases back to ten (by one year per century) |
伴天連(ateji);破天連(ateji) | [ばてれん;パテレン;バテレン, bateren ; pateren ; bateren] (n) (1) Portuguese Jesuits (in Japan in the 16th century) (por |
国緊隊 | [こくきんたい, kokukintai] (n) (abbr) (See 国際緊急援助隊) Japan International Cooperation Agency; JICA |
国際協力事業団 | [こくさいきょうりょくじぎょうだん, kokusaikyouryokujigyoudan] (n) Japan International Cooperation Agency (1974); JICA; (P) |
宿曜道 | [すくようどう, sukuyoudou] (n) (See 宿曜) form of astrology based on the Xiuyaojing (brought to Japan in the Heian period) |
幸福の科学 | [こうふくのかがく, koufukunokagaku] (n) Kofuku-no-Kagaku; The Institute for Research in Human Happiness (religion founded in Japan in 1986) |
御高祖頭巾;お高祖頭巾 | [おこそずきん, okosozukin] (n) kerchief worn by women in former times in Japan in cold weather, covering the whole head (except eyes) |
高度経済成長 | [こうどけいざいせいちょう, koudokeizaiseichou] (n) rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period) |
黒船 | [くろふね, kurofune] (n) (1) black ships (i.e. Western ships, often painted with tar, that came to Japan in the 16th century); (2) product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market, etc. |