noun:

• government (public policy) focusing on the construction of public (community) buildings - often used to criticise wasteful spending

noun:

• getting mixed up with the wrong people; getting into bad company - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• (person) seeming like a genius; (having) the temperament of a prodigy

noun:

• Clethraceae (plant family); (common name) the white alder family

expression / adverb:

• one more; another; the other ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• not quite; not very good ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】

noun:

• Ryukyu Islands; southern chain of the Nansei Islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture ➜ 南西諸島

noun:

• celebration of the completion of a temple or shrine's construction

noun:

• Mandala of the Two Realms; Womb Realm and Matrix Realm Mandalas - Buddhism term ➜ 胎蔵界曼荼羅【たいぞうかいまんだら】・金剛界曼荼羅【こんごうかいまんだら】

expression:

• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope

expression:

• two halves of the whole; two wheels on which everything rolls

noun:

• Empire of Japan (Japan's official name under the Meiji Constitution)

noun:

• seventh of January (lunar calendar) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

noun:

• cytolysis; breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane

noun / ~する noun:

• an extra effort; going the extra mile; one final push

expression / ~の noun:

• (living) from hand to mouth; living on the fringe of subsistance

expression:

• wooing technique; the way to a man's (woman's) heart

noun:

• social progress; getting ahead in society; moving up in the world

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• fourth watch of the night (approx. 1 am to 3 am)

noun:

• fourth division of the night (approx. 1 am to 3 am) - archaism

noun:

• fifth division of the night (approx. 3 am to 5 am) - archaism

noun / expression:

• in the belly
• in one's heart of hearts

noun:

• M-theory ("master theory" that unifies the five superstring theories)

noun:

• Burgess fauna (animal fossils found in the Burgess Shale)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• very much out in the open (as in a information)