noun:

• thin strips of raw fish and squid

noun:

• years of (someone's) birth and death

noun:

• boiled and half-dried bonito

noun:

• plane able to make short takeoffs and landings

noun:

• nature's beauty (cool breeze and bright moon)

noun:

• novel depicting customs and manners of the day - four character idiom

noun:

• being versed in the literary and military arts

noun:

• jankyu; combination of Japanese pinball and mahjong

noun:

• kabuki performance in commemoration of Danjuro and Kikugoro

noun:

• friendly relations between Japan and Israel

noun:

• policy of increasing national prosperity and military power

noun:

• closing argument and sentencing recommendation (of a prosecutor)

noun:

• rakshasa; man-eating demon in Hinduism and Buddhism - From Sanskrit "rākṣasa"

noun:

• coach announcing the winner and winning technique - Sumo term

noun:

• governing a nation and providing relief to people - four character idiom

noun:

• red-haired and blue-eyed (person); a Westerner - four character idiom

noun:

• (a line, queue) being long and serpentine - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• dismantling an historic building and reconstructing it elsewhere

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become decrepit and ugly with age

noun:

• Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency; NISA

noun:

• saving a nation and providing relief to people - four character idiom

noun:

• the principle of honorable death and no surrender - four character idiom

noun:

• governing a nation and providing relief to people - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• appearing and disappearing at will; elusive; phantom-like - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• snobbery; snobbishness; philistinism; vulgar and ostentatious nature (disposition) - four character idiom