surface; face (visible side of an object) / front (of a building), obverse side of a coin ("heads") / cover attached to a surface / outer clothing / facade; appearance; outside; exterior

津波警報: tsunami warning

未然形: a Japanese verbal inflectional category: the irrealis form

sewing machine

"Modern kana usage", the method of using kana to write Japanese that has been used after the 1946 (post-war) Japanese national language reform. Unlike its predecessor, it is almost entirely phonetic, reflecting modern language with little ambiguity.

Modern English

現代英語: Modern English

Powerful, power.

(politics, historical) the minister of the interior, one of the 令外の官 (ryōge no kan, “government offices not specified by administrative decree”)

(politics, historical) the minister of the right, a government position in the 太政官 (Daijō-kan, “Great Council of State”, the highest government office under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system)