noun / ~する noun:

• taking care of oneself; looking after oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• currying of political favor; buying political influence - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• avoidance of responsibility; shirking (one's) responsibility - four character idiom

noun:

• infringing on the power of the sovereign - four character idiom

noun:

• memorial performance; performance in memory of someone - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• of strict morals (moral principles); highly moral - four character idiom

noun:

• feeling like friends; the feeling of friendship - four character idiom

noun:

• small stream; brooklet
• murmuring (as of a stream)

noun:

• chairman of (party) policy bureau; policy chief

noun:

• examination method; method of investigation; search procedure

~の noun:

• foreign (product, esp. agricultural); of foreign manufacture

noun:

• puckered-up mouth; button of a mouth

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• whaa whaa; sound of a baby crying - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Kasuga Myoujin (the deity of Kasuga Shrine)

noun:

• cost of social security; social welfare spending

noun:

• lindy hop (variety of swing dance); lindy

noun:

• the economic boom of the mid-1950s - four character idiom

noun:

• Ministry of Defense (formerly Japan Defense Agency)

noun:

• splinters of glass; glass shards

noun:

• Enka singer; singer of Japanese traditional ballads

noun:

• voluntary activity; voluntary service; labor of love ➜ 奉仕

noun:

• small amount of rainfall; (a) light rainfall ➜ 小雨

noun:

• tips of one's hair; hair ends

noun:

• the grief or feelings of the Emperor

noun:

• Ficus erecta (species of ficus)