noun / ~する noun:

• recovering the remains of soldiers (e.g. Japanese soldiers who died abroad during WWII)

noun:

• one's current family name; woman's family name after she married ➜ 旧姓【きゅうせい】

~と adverb / noun:

• (with a) slamming noise (door, telephone receiver); (with a) banging noise; (with a) clash (broken dish); (with a) clank; (with a) bang - onomatopoeia

noun:

• leatherman; conspicuously gay male who belongs to the leather subculture and engages in bodybuilding - From English "hard gay"

noun:

• old sinner; elderly man-about-town; older person who enjoys free and easy lifestyle unfettered by social taboos - four character idiom

noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions ➜ カメコ

noun:

• stock exchange member who facilitates trading by matching buy and sell orders (similar to an NYSE specialist) - Kantō dialect

conjunction:

• because; the reason is; if you want to know why

expression:

• expression used when the speaker is trying to recall some information

noun:

• people between whom there is tension - From English "tension people"

noun:

• cynicism (of mankind); belief that human nature is fundamentally evil Antonym: 性善説

noun:

• the certainty of divine punishment; Swift is Heaven's vengeance - four character idiom

noun:

• internal clock that is always correct - From English "just clock"

expression / adjective:

• it cannot be helped; there is no other way

noun:

• person with whom one is having an illicit love affair - four character idiom

noun:

• safe day (one on which conception is unlikely to occur)

noun:

• dangerous day (one on which conception is likely to occur) ➜ 安全日

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• vacant and unthinking
• something that should be there is not

expression:

• he that has no child knows not what love is - proverb

noun:

• torture in which the victim is whipped with arrow shafts

expression:

• opportunity only knocks once; strike while the iron is hot - proverb

noun:

• type of dance where the ground is stamped (Heian period) ➜ 歌垣

noun:

• late autumn that makes it seem like winter is coming

expression:

• bringing pungent vegetables or liquor inside the temple is prohibited - proverb - Buddhism term

adverb:

• as necessary