expression:

• unable to suppress one's emotions ➜ 堪える
• unable to cope with one's responsibilities

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• Reye's syndrome

noun:

• group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants)
• non-human - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• losing one's virginity; defloration - From English "lost virgin"

noun:

• Poisson's ratio

noun:

• Broca's area - Anatomy term

noun:

• anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide - 太宰治

expression / noun:

• Kepler's laws - Physics term

expression / noun:

• that's the way it is; such is life

noun / ~する noun:

• one's living; one's livelihood

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to use one's influence

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to strain one's eyes; to look closely; to stare at

noun:

• Beyrich's slit shell (species of sea snail, Pleurotomaria beyrichii)

expression:

• not distinguishing between what's good and bad; miso and shit are the same [literal] - idiom ➜ 味噌

noun:

• Major Mitchell's cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri); Leadbeater's cockatoo

noun:

• spreading baseless information to benefit one's own position in the stock market (etc.) - From English "position talk"
• statement that is beneficial to oneself

expression:

• It's a piece of cake; It's a simple task; It's a cinch ➜ 御茶の子【おちゃのこ】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to remain faithful to the memory of one's husband and never remarry

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to one's village

noun:

• one's next three neighbors; one's next three neighbours

expression:

• with one's country in ruins

noun:

• around one's chest

noun:

• hermit's cell; retreat

noun:

• daimyo's main Tokyo mansion