noun:

• speech meeting; oratorical meeting; meeting to hear a speech

noun:

• reproduction right; right of reproduction; right to make copies

noun:

• administrative ability; managerial ability; ability to manage; administrative capacity

expression:

• first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning
• Introduction; Preface - as section heading of a book, etc. - usually written using kana alone

adverb:

• as much as possible; as far as possible; to the best of one's ability; diligently

noun / ~する noun:

• national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners) ➜ 開国

noun:

• sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• rolling over
• turning around; turning from side to side; inversion; reversal
• tonal inversion; (making a) negative image

noun:

• ancient document; archives; ancient manuscript; paleograph
• document addressed to someone in particular (jargon used in paleography) ➜ 文書【ぶんしょ】

noun:

• left-off cargo; passengers left behind
• rounding error; truncation error; remainder after truncation to an integer value - Mathematics term

noun:

• temporary employment; a temporary job while looking for a better job; work just to kill time - four character idiom

noun:

• a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies; a question of who is responsible (to blame) - four character idiom

noun:

• voir dire (hearing to determine the admissibility of evidence, or the competency of a witness or juror)

expression:

• it's hard to please everybody; damned if you do and damned if you don't - proverb

noun:

• annual event of miso-making
• first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation

noun:

• Spencer's monitor (Varanus spenceri, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to northern Australia); Spencer's goanna

noun:

• heavy rotation; frequently broadcasting or listening to the same music; frequently wearing the same outfit - abbreviation ➜ ヘビーローテーション

noun:

• downtown high-rise area; street of office buildings; area of medium to tall business buildings

expression:

• what did you do?
• is anything the matter?; what seems to be the problem?; can I help you?

noun / suffix noun:

• high-status Shinto shrine with connection to imperial family; imperial Shinto shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• responding to a call-up for military service; answering a call-up - Military term

noun / ~する noun:

• cancelling a meeting; adjournment of a meeting (due to lack of attendance)

~の noun:

• guaranteed (to be genuine, valuable, etc.); certified (as genuine, valuable, etc.) ➜ 極め付きの品

expression:

• The time has come (for, to, when...); The time being ripe (for) - four character idiom

noun:

• part of the feet from the ankles to the tips of the toes