noun:

• nuclear power village; tight-knit community of legislators, regulators and manufacturers involved in the promotion of nuclear power - derogatory term

noun:

• Ministry of Labour (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) ➜ 厚生労働省

noun:

• tell-all book; revealing book; kiss-and-tell book; scandalous book

noun:

• ash glaze (type of fundamental glaze used in ancient times made from the ashes of raw materials such as unhulled rice, straw, oak and pine)

expression / noun:

• the harmonizing, mentally and physically, of two parties engaged in an activity; singing from the same hymn-sheet; dancing to the same beat - idiom

noun:

• repeated events (meetings, drinking sessions, etc.); series of events; streak; straight
• dealer continuing as dealer and east after winning; dealer keep - orig. meaning - Mahjong term

noun:

• chrysanthemum sake; rice wine infused with chrysanthemum, served on the Chrysanthemum Festival (September 9th, 9/9) - Food term ➜ 重陽
• strong mirin, typical of Kaga and Higo provinces - Food term ➜ 味醂【みりん】

noun:

• chopped kabayaki eel on rice; eel fillets cooked over charcoal with soy flavoured sauce, cut in small pieces and serve on rice - Food term

noun:

• Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927)
• Rape of Nanking (1937); Nanking Massacre ➜ 南京大虐殺

noun:

• Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)

noun:

• pilaf topped with bechemal or other cheese-based sauce, then oven baked - named after the Doria family of Genoa - From Italian "Doria"
• casserole dish dedicated to the Doria family, often with green, white and red colours

~する noun:

• to fret (over); to brood (about); to mope; to worry - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• worriedly; (fretting) constantly; (worrying) over this and that; (obsessing) to no end - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• in drops (e.g. of rain) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages ［はい］

suffix / counter:

• counter for cupfuls
• counter for ships, octopuses and squid ［はい］

noun:

• general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of North Korea); secretary-general - obscure term ➜ 書記長・総書記

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to talk on and on; to rattle on; to keep on talking (without pause)

noun:

• the dots of i's and the crosses of t's; (not neglecting) the slightest details - four character idiom ➜ 一点一画もおろそかにしない

noun:

• total work of art; complete work of art; Gesamtkunstwerk; artwork that integrates music, poetry, and acting; composite art

noun:

• at the outset; at the very beginning; in the first place; to begin (start) with; first and foremost - four character idiom

noun:

• northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)

expression:

• always dot the i's and cross the t's; don't neglect the slightest detail; be punctilious - proverb

noun:

• daily life; daily routine; while awake or asleep; at all times; day in, day out; constantly; the four cardinal behaviors - walking, standing, sitting and lying [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• proportional representation electoral system (in which party votes are cast, and candidates from each party are elected based on an ordered list available to the public)

noun:

• water and moon
• the moon reflected on the water
• pit of the stomach; solar plexus ➜ 水落

~する verb (spec.):

• to penetrate; to sink in
• to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively
• to do throughout (e.g. the night)