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Ministry of Home Affairs (1960-2001)

Statistics Bureau of Japan; SBJ; Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

person from one's own province (in China)

person whose ancestors lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang-related immigration wave

to save labor; to save labour

Hainan Province (China)

From the Analects of Confucius

I have nothing to be ashamed of; I have a clean conscience

Formal salutation for a brief letter

Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that ...

Bunten exhibition; annual art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition)

Organization name

Department of Homeland Security (US); DHS

Department of trade; Ministry of trade

Qinghai Province (China)

person from outside one's own province (in China)

person who moved to Taiwan from the continent after WWII; mainlander

Company name

Sanseido (publisher)

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Sanseido Kokugo Jiten (Japanese dictionary published by Sanseido)

Department of Defense (Defence)

Japan's 2001 central government restructuring

Computing

truncated representation

special low power transceiver (wireless)

registration (of change in real estate rights) with all right holders but the initial and final omitted; middle omission registration

Ministry of Information

Department of Economic Affairs (Japan; 1964-1969)

Ministry of the Economy (Brazil); Ministry of Finance

Organization name

Council for Reform of the Foreign Ministry

Organization name

Ministry of the Environment - Global Environment Bureau

Organization name

Department of Agriculture (e.g. of the USA)