expression / noun:

• modern times; the modern age; this day and age

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a phone call; to answer the phone ➜ 電話に出る【でんわにでる】

noun / ~の noun / adverb:

• on the way home from work; returning from work

noun / ~する noun:

• commemoration; celebration; honoring the memory of something; turning something into a memento; memory

noun:

• (being) within range (radio, commuting, etc.); (being) within the sphere (e.g. of influence) ➜ 圏外

noun / ~の noun:

• war renunciation; anti-war
• bout cancelled due to absence of one of the wrestlers - Sumo term

noun:

• JP Bank (former Postal Savings Bank, created when the Postal Services were privatized)

noun:

• Washington, DC (capital of the United States of America)
• Washington (US state) ［華盛頓］

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to level (earth); to cut through (a mountain)
• to split (the opposition); to break (strike)

noun:

• cherry tree in leaf; cherry tree whose blossoms have fallen, revealing the young leaves

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go on tour; to be on the road (e.g. theatre troupe) (theater)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a long hard look at; to look (someone) full in the face

noun:

• populism (politics) - usu. ポピュリズム ➜ 人民主義
• populism; literary movement in France that emerged in the 1930s ［ポピュリスム］ - From French "populisme"

noun:

• Kangxi dictionary; Chinese dictionary of 1716, which popularized the system of 214 radicals

noun:

• tutor to a daimyo, etc.
• tutor to the emperor or crown prince (Meiji period)

expression:

• capitalizing on the fame of a parent; riding a parent's coat-tails

noun:

• not watching where one is driving; not keeping one's eyes on the road

noun:

• Angelica keiskei (species of angelica, a herb of the parsley family)

noun / ~する noun:

• going to the bathroom in a group; going off to urinate together - vulgar - abbreviation ➜ 連れ小便

noun:

• rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to mope; to brood; to be in low spirits; to have the blues

noun / ~する noun:

• tuck at the shoulder (of a child's clothes); shoulder tuck ➜ 肩揚げを下ろす【かたあげをおろす】・肩揚げが取れる【かたあげがとれる】

noun:

• Department of Divinities (1868-1871) ［じんぎかん］ - obsolete term
• Department of Worship (under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 律令制

noun:

• manifestation of a Buddha (or bodhisattva, etc.) in the form of a Shinto kami

noun:

• dharmalaksana (dharma characteristics, the specific characteristics of all manifest phenomena) - Buddhism term ➜ 法性
• Hosso sect of Buddhism - abbreviation ➜ 法相宗