noun:

• Japanese invasion of French Indochina (1940)

noun:

• fortunes of business

noun / ~する noun:

• preliminary loading of the (cargo) ship (in preparation for moving cargo around inside the ship)

noun:

• confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard)

expression:

• prevention of global warming - abbreviation ➜ 地球温暖化防止【ちきゅうおんだんかぼうし】

noun:

• Minister of Finance

noun:

• day or date of an invitation

noun:

• collection of handwriting (usu. old)
• model; example

noun:

• feeling of oppression

noun / ~する noun:

• increase in the number of vehicles, trains, etc.; increase in runs (bus, etc.) ➜ 減車

noun:

• code of morals; moral principles

noun:

• signs of defeat; negative turn of events

expression / noun:

• calm fields of spring - archaism

noun:

• way of cutting off

noun:

• the power of life or death - four character idiom

noun:

• War of the Roses

noun:

• facing of a tatami mat

expression / adjective:

• of poor quality; poor-quality; inferior quality

noun / ~の noun:

• sense of space; spaciousness

noun / ~する noun:

• compounding of medicine; dispensing (medicine)
• dispensation (e.g. of heaven); providence; combining; arranging; putting together

noun:

• rumour of a love affair; talk of a romance

noun:

• High Court of Justice (UK); Parlement (France, during the ancien régime) ➜ 最高法院

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one sen will cry at one sen [literal] - proverb ➜ 一円を笑う者は一円に泣く・一銭

noun:

• sumo performed as part of Shinto harvest festivities - Sumo term

noun:

• dye made of fermented indigo leaves