noun:

• research and teaching centre (center)

noun:

• erotic and grotesque nonsense - abbreviation

noun:

• research and development; R&D ➜ 研究開発

noun:

• dawn and dusk; morn and eve

noun:

• pursue and attack (a criminal)

expression:

• mixture of wheat and chaff; mixture of the good and bad; jumble of wheat and tares - four character idiom

noun:

• concealed winning hand consisting of chows, a pair that isn't a value pair, and an open wait - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• agricultural and fishing industries

expression:

• wives and tatami are best when they're new

noun / ~する noun:

• sparing life and taking life; letting live and killing ➜ 活殺

expression:

• alpha and omega - obscure term

noun:

• same race and same language

noun:

• Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort

noun:

• active and (first) reserve duty - Military term

expression:

• rear a tiger and court disaster - proverb

noun:

• cutlet and rice combo meal

noun / ~する noun:

• speak and write plainly (frankly); speak and write without reserve - four character idiom

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) ➜ 春秋戦国【しゅんじゅうせんごく】

noun / adjectival noun:

• peace and quiet; safe and peaceful; tranquil and uneventful - four character idiom

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

noun:

• central government ministries and agencies

noun:

• acupuncturist and practitioner of moxibustion

noun:

• electoral system comprised of single-seat constituencies and proportionally represented multiple-seat constituencies

noun:

• three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones (Confucius) - archaism Antonym: 三損友 ➜ 益者三友

noun / ~する noun:

• multiplication and division