noun:

• being imaginative and creative; creative originality - four character idiom

noun:

• kindness and affection; love

noun:

• seafood and vegetables cooked sukiyaki style

noun:

• permanent hard water

noun:

• disparity (of income, pensions, etc.) between public and private employees - four character idiom

noun:

• Olympics and Paralympics - abbreviation ➜ オリンピック・パラリンピック

noun:

• cause and effect; causality

noun:

• (contemporary) customs and behavior; the picture of people's life in the contemporary world - four character idiom

godan ~る verb:

• to taste and know

noun:

• priests and laymen

noun / ~する noun:

• being well fed and warmly clothed - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• motivating the troops on the battlefield with war drums and war cries - obscure term
• making an uproar - obscure term

noun:

• hard drive - IT term

adverb / ~する noun:

• very short and stout; small but quite wide around - onomatopoeia ➜ ずんぐり

noun:

• mixed plutonium and uranium oxides fuel; MOX

noun:

• harassment, discrimination, bullying, etc. of staff and students at educational institutions - abbreviation - From English "academic harassment" ➜ アカデミックハラスメント

adverb / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• soft and flaky (pie, potatoes, squash, etc.); fluffy; crumbly; fresh-baked; fresh from the oven - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~する noun:

• being pleased with oneself; beaming happily; chuckling to oneself - onomatopoeia

noun / ~の noun:

• United States and South Korea; American-Korean

expression:

• (coming through) loud and clear

noun:

• Ksitigarbha statue erected to help deliver miscarried and aborted fetuses to buddhahood (foetuses) ➜ 地蔵

noun:

• examinatinon with MRI, MRA, etc. to check for aneurysms and other problems - from "brain dry-dock" ➜ 人間ドック

noun:

• maid at an inn who served clients and worked as a prostitute (Edo period) ➜ 飯盛り

noun:

• being stuck between a rock and a hard place; being in a dilemma; being torn between conflicting demands

noun / ~の noun:

• mixture of correct and broken speech

noun:

• earth, water, fire, and wind (the four elements) - Buddhism term