noun:

• man's man; man aggressively pursuing sex and riches; carnivore [literal] ➜ 草食系

noun:

• bracing oneself up to action, being inspired by something; getting down to work, putting heart and soul into it; tackling (a job) with gusto - four character idiom

noun:

• (of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people - four character idiom

noun:

• chocolatedip chromis (Chromis dimidiata); half-and-half chromis; twotone chromis

noun / ~する noun:

• closing ranks; uniting and working together; coming together for fighting - four character idiom

expression:

• even further; and then some; even more

noun:

• stars; the stars and planets; celestial bodies

temporal noun:

• from morning till night; day and night; always

noun:

• graduate university; university concentrating on graduate-level education and advanced research; research university

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something

noun:

• household belongings; household possession; furniture and household goods; goods and chattels; home furnishings; household goods; traps

noun:

• Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements

noun:

• payment in substitutes; accord and satisfaction; substitute performance - Law term

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to wait for a long time; to wait and wait; to eagerly await

noun:

• LOHAS; Lifestyles Of Health And Sustainability; market segment made up of ecologically conscious consumers

noun:

• locking doors; lock and key; vital point - obscure term

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to throw something to each other; to pass something back and forth; to bandy something around
• to take part in a pitching duel - Baseball term

noun:

• luo han guo (Siraitia grosvenorii); herbaceous perennial vine native to China and Thailand; fruit of the Siraita grosvenorii

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

noun:

• being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to straighten oneself; to straighten one's clothes and one's posture; to adopt a more serious attitude - idiom

expression:

• furthermore; and another thing; even as

expression:

• anybody (without distinction); every Tom, Dick and Harry; anything

expression:

• you can't always get what you want; man plans and God laughs; things don't always turn out the way you hope - proverb

noun:

• beautiful weather; clear and cloudless sky; clear Japanese weather