noun / ~の noun:

• the precedence of merit; performance orientation; ability- (merit-) based (promotion, pay scale, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• for ever and ever; (through) eternity; countless ages; till the end of time - four character idiom

noun:

• one's dark days; the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity - four character idiom

noun:

• normalization; offering people with disabilities the same conditions as other people

noun:

• violet (any flower of genus Viola, esp. the Fuji dawn, Viola mandshurica)

expression:

• quick to take a hint; very responsive; quick on the uptake ➜ ツーカー

noun:

• yunwei (secondary vowel or consonant following the primary vowel of a Chinese character)

noun:

• Three Alls Strategy; Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War - 三光 is a ref. to a Chinese phrase meaning 'kill all, burn all, loot all'

noun:

• professor specializing in the readings of kanji in classic Confucianist texts

particle:

• a sort of thing like; used after a phrase to modify the following noun

noun:

• collar; area around the collar
• counterclockwise (when seated in a circle); anti-clockwise

expression:

• losing oneself; on top of the world; walking on air; frivolous - idiom

expression:

• the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat - proverb ➜ 三十六計

expression:

• it is difficult to say which of the two is better

expression / ichidan verb:

• to remain faithful to the memory of one's husband and never remarry

expression:

• we meet only to part; meeting is the first step to parting [literal] - proverb

expression / noun:

• perseverance prevails; three years on a (cold) stone (will make the stone warm) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• focal point of a lens in front of the subject ➜ ピント

noun:

• arrow wheel (decorative windmill on the pole on which carp streamers are raised) ➜ 鯉幟

noun:

• tathagatagarbha (buddha-womb, the potential within all living things to become a buddha) - Buddhism term

noun:

• drum; croaker (any fish of the family Sciaenidae)
• Nibe croaker (Nibea mitsukurii)

noun:

• Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)

noun:

• Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries) ➜ 日本人町

noun:

• hoolock gibbon (either of the two gibbons in genus Hoolock)

noun / ~の noun:

• Cambrian system (i.e. rock layer deposited during the Cambrian period)