noun:

• person who likes alcohol and sweets equally well - four character idiom
• person who can drink much alcohol without becoming tipsy

noun:

• Health and Sports Day (national holiday; second Monday in October); Health-Sports Day; Sports Day

noun:

• type of dancing and shouting performed by fans at concerts (usu. idol concerts)

noun / ~する noun:

• restricting and controlling

noun:

• three-party coalition: Jimintou, Jiyuutou and Koumeitou - abbreviation ➜ 自自公３党

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to come and see (someone, something); to visit

noun:

• wind and waves
• waves stirred by the wind ➜ 風波

expression:

• parents may risk life and limb for their children (like a pheasant when the plains are burning or a crane on a cold night) - obscure term

noun:

• coeval with heaven and earth - four character idiom

noun:

• spring day being long and balmy; serene spring day - four character idiom

noun:

• giving up on winning a hand and discarding only safe tiles - Mahjong term

noun:

• archery and horsemanship

noun:

• sample-and-hold device - IT term

noun:

• joint authorship

noun:

• permanent and immutable - four character idiom

~よい adjective:

• sexy and cool - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• rise and fall (of nations); destiny

noun:

• large-scale housing and lifestyle development project

noun / adjectival noun:

• primitive and barbarous; uncivilized and barbaric - four character idiom

noun:

• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; EBRD

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• soft and elastic; plexible; pliant - onomatopoeia

noun:

• period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform ➜ 大化の改新

adjective:

• long and narrow; lanky; gangling; spindly

noun:

• large and excellent

noun:

• traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven ➜ 短歌
• long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century) ［ながうた］ ➜ 長唄