noun:

• (system of) husband and wife retaining separate family names

noun:

• junk; rubbish; trash; garbage; odds and ends

noun:

• Uighur (Turkic people and language in China); Uygur

noun:

• chanko; fish, meat, and vegetable stew traditionally served to wrestlers - Sumo, Food term ➜ ちゃんこ鍋【ちゃんこなべ】

noun / adjectival noun:

• (an explanation, advice, etc. being) kind, careful, and thorough

~の noun:

• cat-and-mouse (race); lead changing hands many times

noun:

• scenery being beautiful in both rainy and sunny weather - four character idiom

noun:

• archery, horsemanship, spearsmanship, and swordsmanship; martial arts in general - four character idiom

noun:

• archery, horsemanship, spearsmanship, and swordsmanship; martial arts in general - four character idiom

noun:

• one's philosophy of making, saving, and spending money - four character idiom

adverbial noun:

• single-mindedly; wholeheartedly; with one's heart and soul - four character idiom

noun:

• large building and lofty tower; splendid (magnificent, palatial) structure - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling; totally uninhibited - four character idiom

~の noun:

• a large number; all sorts; hundreds and thousands

noun:

• hook and loop fastener (e.g. Velcro)

noun:

• property damage (not including ships, buildings, planes and documents) - Law term

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Economic and Fiscal Policy

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Science and Technology Policy

noun:

• Tripartite Pact (between Japan, Germany and Italy in WWII)

noun:

• hybrid vehicle (e.g. electric and gasoline)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pour one's heart and soul into

noun / ~する noun:

• collecting together and buying; doing a big shop

noun:

• Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)

noun:

• memorandum of agreement on general trade terms and conditions

noun:

• vinegar and soy sauce mixed in roughly equal proportions ➜ 合わせ酢