noun:

• Japan, the United States and South Korea

noun:

• wearing something for the first time ➜ 下ろし【おろし】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be afraid of; to fear; to dread; to be nervous (about); to be shy (of)

noun:

• low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.)
• Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds) ➜ 山の手

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow)
• staining a pattern on fabric or paper by rubbing it with indigo leaves

noun:

• three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization of alcohol)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to envy; to be envious (of); to be jealous (of) - Kantō dialect

noun:

• cost of goods sold; cost of sales; sales cost

noun:

• one's own effort; doing single-handedly
• a game (of go, shogi, etc.); a match
• a dance; a (musical) composition
• a company (e.g. of soldiers); a group; a party
• one hand

noun:

• free use

~する noun:

• to use freely; to make free use of; to have good command (e.g. of a language)
• to drive someone on

noun:

• (former) Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry); MITI

noun:

• (former) Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry); MITI ➜ 経済産業省【けいざいさんぎょうしょう】

adverb:

• as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively

noun:

• kanji for common use; jōyō kanji; list of 2,136 kanji established in 2010, formerly a list of 1,945 established in 1981 ➜ 当用漢字

godan ~す verb:

• to drive mad; to make insane
• to cause a malfunction; to put out of order; to throw out of kilter
• to derail (a plan, etc.)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go on about (one's love affairs); to speak proudly of (one's spouse, girlfriend, etc.); to speak fondly of

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be made an example of; to be made a victim of; to be exposed to ridicule

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to start an act (of a play); to have curtains open; to have an (event, period of history, etc.) start ➜ 幕を閉じる

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)

noun:

• being apt to make a show of one's faults; penchant for boasting of one's faults; pretending to be worse than one really is - four character idiom

noun:

• Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations)
• nickname
• section of a village

noun:

• defense of one's country; defence of one's country

noun:

• test of one's strength; test of one's ability

noun / ~の noun:

• out of one's line; out of one's field

noun:

• first part of a poem; first part of a verse