bizarre/unsettling text of unclear origin and often of a radical/shocking nature

place or building where stores public records; archive

old documents / (in palaeography) historical documents written to convey a specific intention between a sender and receiver; generally inclusive of written material through the mid-19th century

Mongolia

modern language / (especially in reference to Japanese) modern Japanese; Japanese in its current form, spoken since the Meiji era and based on the Tokyo dialect

"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

a play focusing on modern events and issues from World War II and up; contemporary drama, a modern play

modernization

to modernize