noun:

• political dynamics; dynamics of political forces; the balance of political power - four character idiom

noun:

• side street (often parallel to a main street); back street; alley

adjective:

• risky; dangerous; hazardous; perilous; close (e.g. game); narrow (e.g. victory)
• suggestive; bordering on the obscene; risqué; delicate (e.g. question); questionable; shady
• extreme; harsh; cruel - archaism

expression / noun:

• the most one can do; as much as one can; as hard as possible

noun:

• five-line musical notation; Western musical notation based on the five-line staff

noun:

• decoration hung on the New Year's pine on New Year's eve

noun / ~する noun:

• working in the field in fine weather and reading at home in rainy weather; living in quiet retirement dividing time between work and intellectual pursuits - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• cleaning up or covering for another; bearing the consequences of someone else's error; paying a debt for someone; wiping another's buttocks [literal]

expression:

• if you visit the toilet while travelling, you will get behind your fellow travelers; one chou for a piss, one ri for a shit [literal] - archaism - proverb ➜ 里【り】・町

noun / ~する noun:

• not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds; falling seven times, getting up eight times [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life - idiom

expression / noun:

• completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; deserted ➜ 蛻【もぬけ】
• body from which the soul has left; corpse
• shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.) - orig. meaning

noun:

• PASMO (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train and bus ticket in the greater Tokyo region and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ スイカ

noun:

• region south of Tokyo on Pacific Ocean side of Japan; eastern sea
• East Sea (controversial name for the Sea of Japan proposed by Korea)

~の noun / noun:

• totally at a loss; lose one's bearings; in a maze; in a fog; all at sea; up in the air; mystified; bewildered - four character idiom

noun:

• public opinion; public eye; (in) the eyes of others
• discerning eye; an eye (for sth)
• perspective; way of looking at things; point of view

pronoun:

• what

prefix:

• how many ［なん］ - followed by a counter ➜ 何か月
• large number of; many ［なん］ - followed by (optional number), counter and も ➜ 何度も・何日も

noun:

• you-know-what; that

expression:

• whatsit; what's the expression; what do you call them

interjection:

• what? - expressing surprise
• hey! - expressing anger or irritability

noun / ~する noun:

• resistance; opposition; standing up to
• reluctance; repulsion; repugnance
• resistance; drag; friction - Physics term
• electrical resistance - abbreviation ➜ 電気抵抗

noun:

• resistor - abbreviation ➜ 抵抗器

adjectival noun / noun:

• shock (psychological)

noun:

• shock (physical, mechanical)
• shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow) - Medicine term

noun / ~の noun:

• pension (esp. public servant's)

noun:

• a lord giving a land holding to a vassal - archaism ➜ 恩地

noun:

• (over) a great distance; (a long journey (flight, voyage)) to (from) a faraway place - four character idiom

noun:

• Nansei Islands; Ryukyu Islands; chain of islands extending from southwestern Kyushu to northern Taiwan ➜ 琉球諸島

noun:

• snow guard (to prevent snow from sliding off of a roof); snow stop

noun:

• chemical reaction used to detect residue from gunshots
• gunpowder residue; gun shot residue; GSR - colloquialism

expression / noun:

• lost decade; decade of economic stagnation
• decade in Japan from 1992 to 2002

interjection / noun:

• crying "banzai" (or raising one's hands in the banzai gesture)
• something worthy of celebration
• giving up ［ばんざい］
• long time - archaism
• eternal life (and prosperity) - archaism

interjection:

• banzai (a celebratory cheer); hurrah (hooray, hurray)