noun:

• cash gift from local government to the elderly (often on 77th and 88th birthdays)

noun / ~する noun:

• restoration; return to health

noun:

• guard; signalman; attendant

noun:

• authoritarianism

noun / adjectival noun:

• firm and solid; stout and durable - four character idiom

noun:

• fur coat (to protect against the cold)
• clothes made with the down of birds

noun:

• desire for marriage; marriage aspiration; yearning for marriage

noun:

• stand, table or altar on which one places donated flowers

noun:

• hand camera

ichidan verb:

• to kick (into something, e.g. a goal)

noun:

• police state

expression:

• better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond - four character idiom

noun:

• taking action although it may result in death; acting while being fully prepared to die

noun / ~する noun:

• watching (esp. during an emergency); being on alert

noun:

• guard; watchmen

noun / ~する noun:

• dependents; family members that one has to support
• encumbrances; things that tie one down

noun:

• prefectural senior high school; public senior high school

noun / ~の noun:

• eyetooth; cuspid; canine (tooth); dogtooth ➜ 糸切り歯

noun:

• fur hat; wool hat

expression / noun:

• Kenmu Restoration (1333-1336)

noun:

• message appended to a note accompanying a gift, requesting the recipient to keep the gift at hand

noun:

• premeditated crime; deliberate crime

noun:

• regiment of military policemen

noun:

• angiocardiography

~の noun:

• empirical; from experience

noun:

• deterministic language - IT term