noun:

• carnivorous female; predatory woman; aggressive woman who take the initiative in relationships with men ➜ 草食系男子【そうしょくけいだんし】

noun:

• carnivorous female; predatory woman; aggressive woman who take the initiative in relationships with men ➜ 肉食系女子【にくしょくけいじょし】

expression / adjective:

• (after the ren'yōkei form of a verb) indicates concession or compromise ➜ てもいい
• indicates permission ➜ てもいい

noun:

• anomaly; angular distance of a planet from its perihelion as seen from the sun - Astronomy term

expression:

• not knowing what to do with the time one has on one's hand - unorthodox form ➜ 間が持てない

expression / adjective:

• knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things ➜ 要領がいい【ようりょうがいい】

expression / adverb:

• at the very beginning; first of all; before anything else; first and foremost

noun:

• deutomerite; posterior sac; posterior chamber - Medicine term
• women's quarters at the rear of a house

noun:

• queen of the Andes (Puya raimondii); titanka; puya de Raimondi

noun:

• the four most important tournaments in a particular sport; grand slam tournaments; majors

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

noun:

• former Christian (forced to apostatize during the Edo period); fallen Christian

expression:

• it's the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan's fault; LDP-blamer - from 自民が ..; used to mock critics of the LDP - slang - derogatory term ➜ 自民党

noun / ~する noun:

• helping a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たない, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たず, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】・めどが立たない

pre-noun adjectival:

• next; the next

noun:

• The Gambia; Gambia

noun / ~する noun:

• guidance; leading (the way); showing around
• information; notice; notification
• announcement (of one's arrival)
• invitation
• acquaintance; knowledge

noun / ~する noun:

• changing household registry; transfer (e.g. of one's name in the register)
• transferring to a different team - Sports term

noun:

• last moment; eleventh hour - idiom
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• unemployed person - colloquialism
• vagabond; floater; vagrant - colloquialism

noun:

• day labourer, esp. on the docks ［風太郎］

noun:

• elder statesman; doyen; old-timer; authority
• Genro (member of a pre-WWII body that informally advised the emperor)

noun:

• (inferior) imitator; epigone; poor imitation; copycat
• follower; adherent; person belonging to the same school (e.g. of thought)

noun:

• passion; sexual desire; lust
• attachment (esp. to one's family or a member of the opposite sex) - Buddhism term