The postwar has experienced several long periods of continuous strong prosperity, among which are the Jinmu Boom and the Iwato boom.
戦後の日本はいくつかの力強い長期繁栄を経験し、その中には神武景気や岩戸景気がある。
About 50 percent of the firms in Japan have acknowledged the necessity of giving their workers longer holidays, and think summer holidays are needed to give their workers both mental and physical refreshment.
There is also one type of idealism that says even without strength or intelligence you can do anything if you can merely persist.
頑張れさえすれば体力や知力がなくても何でもできるという一種の精神主義もある。
Totem poles consist of a group of figures that represent animals, birds, fish, mythological beings and supernatural beasts.
トーテムポールには、動物、鳥、魚、神話上の動物、それに超自然的動物と言った一団の彫り物がある。
And God said: Let there be light. And there was light.
神光あれと言給ひければ光ありき。
If God did not exist, we'd have to invent him.
もし神が存在しないなら、神を発明しなければならない。
The question of worshipping at the Yasukuni Shrine is left to the independent judgement of Cabinet ministers.
靖国神社参拝に関しては閣僚の自主的な判断に任せられている。
But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.
It seems that it's impossible to distinguish an obsessional neurosis from an intense love from a biochemical perspective.
生化学的には、熱烈な恋愛と強迫神経症の疾患とは区別できないようだ。
My younger sister went to Kobe yesterday.
妹は昨日神戸へ行った。
He has excellent reflexes.
彼は運動神経が抜群だ。
I believe it will be quite a long time before the spirit of democracy pervades our daily life.
民主主義の精神がわれわれの日常生活の中に浸透するには相当の年月がかかると思います。
And I testify that this is the Son of God.
それで、このかたが神の子であると証言しているのです。
Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
神よ、最初にキスを発明したのは、どんな馬鹿者であったか私はいぶかる。
Freedom is the very essence of our democracy.
自由こそまさに我々の民主主義の神髄だ。
On November 15th the seven-five-three festival when parents with boys of five, girls of seven and either boys or girls of three dress, celebrate children's maturation, dress them in gay clothes and take to shrines where they pray for their children's futu
It seems unlikely that any society could completely dispense with myths.
完全に神話なしでやっていけた社会はなかったように思われる。
That ancient ruin was once a shrine.
あの古代の廃虚は、かつては神社だった。
Now Marina was a romantic, she had not yet fallen into that passive state of mind which accepts that one should find a corner to live, anywhere, and then arrange one's whole life around it.
"By the way, do you know what a Shinto shrine is?" "I've a little bit of knowledge on the subject. It's a religious facility where that which is the object of worship, that called the genius loci, is enshrined."
Thunder has been explained scientifically, and people no longer believe it is a sign that the gods are angry with them, so thunder, too, is a little less frightening.
