西洋
せいよう
the West; the Occident; Western countries
JLPT N4 Common word
Meanings
Noun
the West; the Occident; Western countries
Example sentences
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He likes Western culture.
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Individuality is stressed in the Western world.
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Individuality is very important in the West.
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Yukichi Fukuzawa introduced Western ideas into Japan.
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Japan needed contact with the Western countries.
More examples (9)
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Many western customs have taken root in Japan.
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They are much better than Western baths.
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Some people claim that there are no more heroes in the Western world.
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In most Western countries, young people come of age at 18 or 21.
日本人はこの百年間、西洋の考え方、感じ方を学びとろうとしてきた。
The Japanese have tried to learn the Western way of thinking and feeling for the past hundred years.
外国、特に西洋の諸国では、学生は個人として自己を表明したり完成させるようにし向けられる。
In foreign countries, especially in Western countries, students are encouraged to express and develop themselves as individuals.
その数百年後に、フォークが西洋のテーブルに現れることになるが、ただちに受け入れられたわけではなかった。
The fork made its way to Western tables several hundred years later, but it was not immediately accepted.
アウグスティヌスの思想的影響はキリスト教にとどまらず、西洋思想全体に及んでいるといっても過言ではない。
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Augustine's thought had an influence not only on Christianity but on the whole of Western thought.
自分はいつも人力車と牛鍋とを、明治時代が西洋から輸入して作ったものの中で一番成功したものと信じている。
I've always thought that rickshaws and sukiyaki were the most successful amongst the products made from what was imported from the West during the Meiji period.