(rare) State of Japan (de facto official name of Japan, 1947 to present)

part, portion / copy of a newspaper or book

centre, core, heart / political centre

a great war, a great battle

Middle-earth

Short for 葦原の中つ国 (ashihara no nakatsukuni, “mortal realm”).

a land, a large place / a country in general, a region / a country as in a nation, a state / the office of emperor, the crown; affairs of state / a province of ancient Japan

next, order, sequence, below

(history, socialism) the Second International

a Classical Japanese adjective with シク活用 (shiku-katsuyō, “shiku-inflection”)