expression:

• era in which university places outnumber university applicants; era of declining enrollment

noun:

• ruling and opposition parties; parties in and out of power

noun:

• (man's) father-in-law; father of one's wife

noun:

• ship transporting earth
• ship made of earth (in Japanese tales) ➜ 泥舟

noun:

• way of throwing (esp. in baseball); throwing technique; pitching technique - Sports term

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (dragging a large or heavy item) slowly - onomatopoeia
• (falling) little by little; (slipping) gradually; (drawing back) slowly; with a slither - onomatopoeia
• on and on; while putting off; slovenly; interminably - onomatopoeia
• with a slurp; with a sniffle - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• loose; lax; inconclusive; unresolved - onomatopoeia

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)

noun / ~する noun:

• being on stage when the curtain opens

noun:

• wooden floor; wooden-floored room
• thinly-sliced food grilled on a cedar board ➜ 板焼き

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow stiff
• to be absorbed in; to be devoted to; to be a fanatic; to elaborate

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to induce (somebody to do something); to tempt
• to act toward (somebody in a certain way); to handle (men); to treat
• to send; to forward to

expression / ichidan verb:

• to go wherever one has to go (to get a matter settled, e.g. the court)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• assistance; support; aid; help
• subsidy; supplement; subvention; grant-in-aid
• auxiliary; subsidiary
• spot (in bodybuilding)

noun:

• mid-January festival in northern Japan, with snow huts in which children play house
• snow hut

noun:

• amateur work (in art); work done in carefree mood without regard to time or expenses - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to rotate in one's hands; to treat; to manage; to dispose of

noun:

• Borneo shark (Carcharhinus borneensis, species of requiem shark found in Borneo and China)

noun:

• sewing elastic; flat bands of elastic for sewing in cuffs, etc.

noun:

• Edo chrysanthemum; variety of chrysanthemum originally cultivated in Edo
• China aster (Callistephus chinensis) ➜ 蝦夷菊

conjunction:

• if so; in that case; in that situation

noun / ~する noun:

• prowling about; traveling in secret; travelling in secret

noun:

• preserving in sugar; food preserved in sugar

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• in good (perfect) order; in apple-pie order - four character idiom

expression:

• in plain words; in plain terms; put simply

noun:

• form (in Aristotelian philosophy) - From Greek "eidos"
• idea (in Platonic philosophy)

noun / ~する noun:

• food cooked in miso; cooking in miso