His proposal received assent from everyone.

This year is a poor harvest, and farmers are having a hard time.

Norio is my best friend.

The Aosaka checkpoint was a mountain checkpoint that used to be west of Kyoto.

His omission caused the accident.

Mr. Higashikuni is a famous historian in Japan.

He was fascinated by the legends of Middle-earth.

Middle-Earth is a fictional world that appears in Tolkien's novels.

We visited the reverent land of the emperor, Mikuni.

I am a citizen of Japan.