前

preventive measures to reduce damage from a disaster; anticipatory disaster preparation

to lose one's common sense (e.g. in excitement or intoxication); to forget the situation one's in; to lose oneself (in something)

pre-payment; advance payment

Organization name

Hirosaki Gakuin College

Organization name

Otemae Women's College

Product name

Maeda no krakkaa (Maeda Seika brand of crackers)

Organization name

Kyoai Gakuen University

Organization name

Otemae University

Organization name

Hirosaki University of Health and Welfare

Organization name

Maebashi Institute of Technology

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

The Pre-Persons (Philip K Dick, 1974)

Historical term

Echizen (former province located in parts of present-day Fukui and Gifu prefectures)

Historical term

Bizen (former province located in the southeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)

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Chikuzen (former province located in the west of present-day Fukuoka Prefecture)

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Hizen (former province located in present-day Saga and Nagasaki prefectures, excluding Tsushima and Oki Islands)

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Buzen (former province located in the east of present-day Fukuoka and the north of Ōita prefectures)

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Former Han dynasty (of China; 206 BCE-9 CE); Western Han dynasty

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Rikuzen (former province located in parts of present-day Miyagi and Iwate prefectures)

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Uzen (former province located in parts of present-day Yamagata Prefecture)

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cargo ships that sailed the Japan Sea during the Edo period

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Bizen sword (mid-Heian to early Kamakura periods)

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ancient Bizen ware (Kamakura to early Momoyama periods)

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Tanzenburo (famous early Edo-period bathhouse)

Historical term

period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform

Rare term

preceding emperor