noun:

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

noun:

• being on the defensive

expression:

• the industry's first ...

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bury in the ground

temporal noun:

• the following evening

noun:

• meat around the eyes of a fish

expression:

• if a man hears the Way in the morning, he may die in the evening without regret - from a quote by Confucius - proverb

noun:

• the various countries of Europe and America

expression:

• even a homely girl looks beautiful at the peak of her youth; even coarse tea tastes good when freshly-brewed [literal] - abbreviation ➜ 鬼も十八番茶も出花

expression / ichidan verb:

• to employ the right person; to choose somebody with the right qualities

noun:

• the first time in the year that one wears an awase kimono ➜ 袷

noun:

• twelfth of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• the (one's) best pupil; the (one's) top disciple

noun:

• Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma; Lotus Sutra - Buddhism term ➜ 法華経

noun:

• scholar who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• being the strongest; being powerful (mighty) without equal - four character idiom

expression:

• well-known only to those in the know; be well-known but to the few; highly regarded by a select few

noun / ~する noun:

• exercising self-restraint and conforming to the rules of etiquette and formality - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to see through to the finish; to be seen to the end

noun:

• rookie-of-the-year

noun:

• the whole body

adverb:

• from the start
• not at all - with negative verb

expression / noun:

• six of one, half a dozen of the other; scant difference - idiom

noun:

• constellations of the zodiac

noun:

• fiber to the curb; FTTC - IT term