noun:

• attitude that with the state as one's boss, normal fiscal accountability can be dispensed with; dependence on the central government; attitude of those who assume their jobs are safe because they are government employees

noun:

• film shown over the New Year period

noun:

• gap between the clouds

noun:

• the plant kingdom; Plantae

noun:

• the literary world; literary circles

noun:

• traditional mirror with a handle, popular since the Muromachi period Antonym: 紐鏡

noun:

• Double Bridge at the Palace

noun:

• the 10 precepts ［十戒］ - Buddhism term
• Ten Commandments; Decalogue; Decalog

expression / ichidan verb:

• to persuade someone to accept the inevitable

noun:

• log on the roof of a shrine set perpendicular to the ridgepole

noun:

• greatest hero (mastermind) of the age

noun:

• the mind's eye

noun:

• degenerative eye disorder caused by cloudiness in front of the pupil - obscure term ➜ 底翳

noun:

• ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life) - Buddhism term

noun:

• feeling of the impending dissolution of parliament

noun:

• clearing of the river water

noun:

• the shogunate (administration)

noun:

• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) - Buddhism term
• becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience

noun:

• someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana-to-kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• obtaining items such as books, CDs and DVDs before the date they officially go on sale - abbreviation - From English "flying get" ➜ フライングゲット

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to violate the border; to invade the frontier district

noun:

• Epistle to the Hebrews (book of the Bible)

noun:

• playing in the sea

noun:

• the art of medicine

noun:

• the entombed; the person buried (usually in burial mounds, etc.)