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Medicine; Anatomy

middle toe

the three major labor laws (trade union law, labor standards law, and labor relations adjustment law)

one reading (of a poem aloud) leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration

Proverb

the early bird catches the worm

a reading leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration

the common run of men; the average Joe; good-for-nothing (person)

acute triangle

(waiting) impatiently; (spending) many a weary day; each moment seeming like an eternity

Three Mountains of Yamato (Mt. Miminashi, Mt. Kagu, and Mt. Unebi)

the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning

From Confucius

three kinds of harmful friends: hypocritical, sycophantic, and glib-talking ones

Buddhism

simultaneous contemplation of the threefold truth (form of Tendai meditation)

using mind, mouth and eyes to understand a book fully

the three Wuhan Cities

three greatest teas of Japan (Uji-cha, Sayama-cha and Shizuoka-cha)

third party

equiangular triangle; equilateral triangle; regular triangle

(season's) record holder in (for) the most strike-outs

Buddhism

the thirteen buddhas, bodhisattvas and wisdom kings

Sumo

wrestler newly promoted to a san'yaku rank

Proverb

a woman has no home of her own in this world (because she has to obey her parents when she is young, her husband when she gets married, and her children when she is old)

uta-sanshin (variety of Okinawan folk music)

singing and playing the sanshin; vocals and sanshin

six-three system of education (six years of elementary school, followed by three years of junior high school)

third-class mail