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Organization name

National Institute of Radiological Sciences

Organization name

Radiation Application Development Association; RADA

Document

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Organization name

People's Liberation Army (China); PLA

Service

NTT unmetered telephone service

Historical term

movements for sending young people to the countryside in China (1937, 1957, 1968)

Historical term

radio broadcast announcing acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and the end of the war (recording of Hirohito; broadcast August 15, 1945)

Historical term

expulsion of a public official and subsequent ban on participating in politics (by the SCAP during the allied occupation); purge

Historical term; Chinese communist party slogan

let a hundred flowers blossom; Hundred Flowers campaign

Historical term

Rustication Movement; movement in China in 1957 to get people to move to the countryside

Rare term

pastime; entertainment; amusement; pleasure

Rare term

extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture)

Rare term

musical farting; making various amusing farting sounds

Dated term

debauchee; profligate; fast liver; philanderer

Rare term

to fire (a gun, arrow, etc.)

Rare term; Physics

radioisotope

to excrete (faeces, urine)

discharge (e.g. of water from a dam)

release (of young fish into a river, pond, etc.); stocking (a river, etc. with fish)

Archaic

banishment; exile

Archaic; Buddhism

discarding; abandoning

ほうか only

variety of street performance from the Middle Ages

ほうげ only

casting off one's attachments (in Zen)

to kick free; to kick loose; to kick away

to kick open (e.g. a sliding door)

to expel (faeces)

Nidan verb (lower class)

to get free; to be freed; to be released

farting jester (Edo period); flatulist

to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect; to abandon