noun:

• G5; Conference of Ministers of the Group of Five

noun:

• nine gates; winning hand composed of 1-1-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-9-9 of the same suit plus one additional tile of the same suit - Mahjong term

noun:

• (member of one of) the top four ranks of sumo wrestlers

noun:

• chief justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong

noun:

• transformation of the population of Japan into idiots (because of television)

noun:

• extraordinary Diet session; extraordinary session of the Diet; session of the Diet convoked by the Cabinet by need or house request

noun:

• extraordinary Diet session; extraordinary session of the Diet; session of the Diet convoked by the Cabinet by need or house request ➜ 臨時国会

expression:

• a narrow-minded person cannot understand the ways of the world; a frog in the well cannot understand the ocean even if it is explained to it [literal] - proverb ➜ 井の中の蛙大海を知らず【いのなかのかわずたいかいをしらず】・井蛙【せいあ】

noun:

• a child; one child
• one of several children, especially the son and heir
• one stone (in the game of go) ➜ 一目【いちもく】

noun:

• part; section
• part of the body; affected part (of the body)

~の noun:

• local (e.g. anesthesia); topical

noun:

• private parts; genitals

noun:

• social conditions; phase of life; (sign of) the times; state of society

noun:

• Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil)

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to repeat a mistake (of somebody); to make the same mistake as that of ...; to follow the rut (left by someone else) [literal] ➜ 前車の轍を踏む・前轍を踏む

noun:

• straggling hair; hair too short to be tied or arranged with the rest of the hair (typically around the sideburns); lovelock ➜ 後れ毛

noun:

• three sun (ca. 9.1 cm) ➜ 寸【すん】
• something small, short or thin (roughly the size of three sun)
• stall-keeper; huckster; hawker ➜ 的屋
• prostitute of the lowest rank - archaism

expression:

• fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing - idiom

noun:

• capital; metropolis; seat of government
• capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light)
• location of the Imperial Palace

noun:

• husband who rules the roost; domineering husband - four character idiom
• the hectoring of the husband

noun:

• lamenting the passing of spring; lamenting the passing of one's youth

noun:

• 34th of the sexagenary cycle; thirty-fourth of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

expression:

• the law of arising and ceasing; the law of creation and destruction - Buddhism term

noun:

• master; head of household; man of the house; principal supporter of a temple

noun:

• Osaka-Kobe
• Hanshin (company name: railway, dept. store, baseball team, etc.)

noun:

• freshman
• newly hired career-track company employee

noun:

• company with a committee governance structure (e.g. auditing, appointment, compensation)