chamber of commerce and industry

video conference

Short for 国家安全保障会議 (Kokka Anzen Hoshō Kaigi, “National Security Council”).

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

eleven o'clock

twelve o'clock; noon; midnight

Synonym of グリニッジ標準時

ushi no toki mairi, a traditional Japanese practice where a person visits (参(まい)り (mairi)) a shrine at approximately 2 AM in the morning (丑(うし)の時(とき) (ushi no toki)) in order to nail a straw effigy of a person (藁人形(わらにんぎょう) (waraningyō)) to a tree and wish for that person's death

Synonym of 黄昏 (tasogare, “dusk; twilight”) / Synonym of 黄昏時 (tasogaredoki, “dusk; twilight”)

(linguistics) diachronic