noun:

• Minister for Economics and Finance - abbreviation

noun:

• caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods

adverb:

• suddenly and in a loud voice (e.g. sobbing) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• strong and fierce

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

expression:

• still waters run deep - proverb

noun:

• diligence and indolence; diligence; attendance; attendance and absence ➜ 出欠・勤惰

pronoun:

• such-and-such a place ➜ 何処其処【どこそこ】

noun:

• merger of towns and villages

noun:

• right to organize and bargain collectively (organise)

noun:

• post-retirement return to one's home town and carrying out agricultural pursuits

noun:

• young men and women who frequented Miyuki Street, Ginza, in the summer of 1964

noun / adjectival noun:

• atrocious and cold-blooded; cruel; brutal; merciless - four character idiom

expression:

• openly and secretly; helping in all ways - proverb

noun:

• free-spirited and uninhibited - four character idiom

noun:

• combination television and video-recorder (or DVD)

noun:

• plaintiff and defendant

noun:

• cash on hand and in banks - Finance term

noun / ~する noun:

• drinking and carousing together

noun:

• type of leather belt worn with ceremonial court dress and decorated with a rhinoceros horn - obscure term

noun:

• plain and lucid; articulate - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• well-known and unknown; somebodies and nobodies; both famous and humble - four character idiom

noun:

• series of articulated plates attached to the back and sides of a Japanese helmet ➜ 兜

noun / ~する noun:

• love and respect - archaism

noun:

• garden gate made of branches and twigs; wicket gate