世

marriage vows

December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform

Buddhism

Trailokyavijaya Vidya-raja; conqueror of the three worlds

ruling the times; holding sway over the minds of the people

unworldly; religious

twisted paper; twisted-paper string

to live in obscurity

(contemporary) customs and behavior; the picture of people's life in the contemporary world

enlightened generation; millennial generation lacking ambition and material desire

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

The Bathhouse of the Floating World (humorous book by Shikitei Sanba)

World Food Program; WFP

World Economic Forum

success story

world city; global city

single-person household

Buddhism

world of the lost; human realm; this world

Coordinated Universal Time; UTC

the free world (historically as opposed to the Communist bloc)

Quotation; From Robert Browning's verse drama Pippa Passes

all's right with the world; all is as it should be

pessimism

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Neon Genesis Evangelion (media franchise)

seven generations of (celestial) gods

Physics

space-time; space-time continuum

cosmopolitanism