appeasement policy

nanshin, Imperial Japan's policy of southern expansionism towards southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands

country, nation, nation-state

a land, a country

A true Tokyoite: one who was born and raised in the Japanese capital and whose parents are from Tokyo. One whose family has been from Tokyo for generations.

(calligraphy and typography) "Edo characters", distinctive calligraphic (and later, typographic) styles that were born in the Edo period

a tatami mat of the Edo (Tokyo) style

Edo River / Edogawa (one of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan) / a surname

(medicine) imperforate anus

Japanese chainmail armour, used by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan.