米

Food, cooking

koso genmai; fermented brown rice

rice grown with reduced agricultural chemicals

rice not subject to government controls

United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (1950-1972); USCAR

Idiomatic expression

pointless (academic) degree; meaningless qualification; useless license; a grain of rice on the sole of the foot (must be removed, but not enough for a meal)

Organization name

Yamagata Prefectural Yonezawa University of Nutrition Sciences

arborio rice (Italian variety)

Indica rice

Japonica rice

flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)

Odontophoridae (New World quail family of birds)

Historical term

Japan-US Treaty of Peace and Amity (March 31, 1854); Convention of Kanagawa; Kanagawa Treaty; unequal treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa shogunate that forced Japan to end its policy of national seclusion

Historical term

The Treaty of Amity and Commerce (July 29, 1858); Japan-US Friendship and Trade Treaty

Historical term

Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters)

Historical term

black-market rice

Historical term

rice given as salary

Historical term

rice (or an equivalent sum of money) given as salary to low-ranking samurai (Edo period)

Historical term

1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US servicemen stationed in Okinawa

Historical term

United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1945-1950)

Rare term

old rice

Rare term

Americanophobia