adverb:

• on good terms with; on cordial terms with; getting along well with; happily; peacefully

~する noun:

• to make friends with; to be good friends with; to get along with

noun:

• being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place - four character idiom

noun:

• first of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mercury and north) ➜ 九星
• white patch on one foot of a horse; horse with such a patch
• surface (landscape) that is white all over; pure white

noun:

• WARM BIZ (Japanese government campaign encouraging companies to set their heater thermostats to 20 degrees Celsius over the winter) ➜ クールビズ

noun:

• debt; liabilities; obligation to a person or party (usu. legal or contractual) Antonym: 債権

noun / ~する noun:

• indigenousness; being native (to a region); settling (of people)

~の noun:

• native; indigenous; aboriginal

expression / noun:

• book of (trade) secrets; secrets
• crib notes; key (to a diagram); pony

noun:

• adding more tea; adding fresh leaves to used ones in a teapot

expression:

• preaching to the deaf; reading the nenbutsu into a horse's ear [literal] - idiom ➜ 念仏

noun:

• feeling of fullness; ability of a food to fill you up

noun:

• industrial union (one relating to a specific industry or occupation); vertical union ➜ 職業別組合

noun:

• enforcement regulations; misterial ordinance; regulations relative to the application of a law

noun:

• person who makes unreasonable complaints to a company; incessant complainer; chronic complainer - From English "claimer"

noun:

• heart-to-heart communication; thought transference; holding a flower and subtly smiling [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• particle that attaches to a phrase and acts on the whole phrase - e.g. the の of のです ➜ のです

expression / adjective:

• trivial; not amounting to much; not a big deal ➜ 大した事ない

noun:

• driving school qualifying test (can lead to waiver of a formal test)

noun:

• ceremony fee; money dedicated to the gods when participating in a ceremony - Shintō term

noun:

• debt bondage (ritsuryo system); forced labor on failure to pay a debt

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference

noun / ~する noun:

• preaching down; breaking down somebody's false beliefs through confrontation (in order to convert them to the right faith) - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• very resourcefully using tactics adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear; acting according to circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

• Parsee; Parsi (adherent of Zoroastrianism, esp. descendants of those who fled to India to escape persecution in Persia)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to find fault with other people rather than oneself; (for the pot) to call the kettle black

noun:

• children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards ➜ 押しくらまんじゅう