noun:

• claws and fangs; claws and tusks
• clutches; devious design; means of causing harm; weapon
• pawn; stooge; cat's-paw
• right-hand man

expression:

• it's hard to cut one's ties to close relatives even if they are wicked; you don't cut your finger off just because it's dirty [literal] - proverb

noun:

• brown meat (crab); miso-like paste found inside a crab's (and arthropods in general) intestinal area
• miso mixed with crab innards or scraps

noun / ~する noun:

• reduction and exemption (e.g. taxes); mitigation and remission (e.g. in criminal law)

noun:

• scenic beauty of mountains and streams; fresh and clear beauty of nature's splendor - four character idiom

noun:

• China and foreign countries (from the perspective of China); civilized land and uncivilized land

ichidan verb:

• to use up all of one's energy and willpower; to be exhausted (and have no will to go on)

adverb:

• increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

noun:

• government and people; those in and out of the court or government; the entire nation

noun:

• brick and mortar business; bricks and mortar business; physical retail store (rather than online)

noun:

• one's opinion on life and death; life-and-death issue (e.g. in religion)

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky - abbreviation ➜ 天一神・陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun / ~する noun:

• front and back; inside and outside; two sides; both sides

noun:

• duplicity; double-dealing; being two-faced

noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

noun:

• (former) Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) ➜ 総務省

noun:

• eyes and ears; seeing and hearing
• one's attention; one's interest

adverb / ~の noun:

• repeatedly; frequently; over and over; time and time again

adverb:

• exceedingly; sincerely; very much

noun:

• between-season wear; spring and autumn clothing; spring and fall clothing

noun:

• wisdom and self-protection; wise and skilled in the art of self-protection - four character idiom

noun:

• between-season wear; spring and autumn clothing; spring and fall clothing - also written as 間 - abbreviation ➜ 合い服

suffix:

• together
• condition; situation; state
• -ish

expression:

• sleep four hours and pass, sleep five hours and fail (when cramming for university entrance exams) - four character idiom

expression:

• Riches and honors are as fleeting as floating clouds; Fortune and fame are here today, gone tomorrow - four character idiom

expression:

• amateurish and haughty way of doing business; venturing into an unfamiliar line of business (and often failing) ➜ 士族

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• being both repellant and attractive at the same time; being both cute and disgusting - slang - colloquialism

noun:

• omen; sign of luck
• origin; history; causation
• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - orig. meaning - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 因縁生起