expression:

• depending on the situation; should time and circumstances permit

noun / ~する noun:

• collation; examining and comparing

expression:

• all told; what with one thing and another

noun / ~の noun:

• mid-to-long term; medium and long term

noun:

• value honor; round wind, seat wind, and dragon tiles - Mahjong term - From Chinese

expression:

• incompatible; (going together) like oil and water - idiom

expression / noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame ➜ 閉月羞花・沈魚落雁

noun:

• a country being in a state of universal peace; the world being peaceful and uneventful - four character idiom

noun:

• natural calamity; striking phenomena in heaven and earth

noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age - abbreviation ➜ 数え年【かぞえどし】

expression:

• more haste, less speed; slow and steady wins the race - proverb

expression / noun:

• fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does); a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit) [literal] - idiom ➜ 漁夫の利

noun:

• the wise readily adapt themselves to changed circumstances; the wise are quick to acknowledge their mistakes and correct them - four character idiom
• (in colloquial usage, ironically or as an excuse) the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• vigorous for one's age; active despite one's years; hale and hearty; full of beans - onomatopoeia

noun:

• violent robbery or burglary; killing and robbing (someone)

noun:

• Hikari; high-speed Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (faster than Kodama; slower than Nozomi) ➜ こだま・のぞみ

noun:

• Chinese bronze inscriptions; type of lettering used on metal objects, especially in China during the Yin and Zhou dynasties

noun:

• dirndl; traditional dress from Bavaria, Austria and South Tyrol

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term

noun:

• blue film; early (1950s-) type of hardcore pornographic film usually filmed on 8 or 16mm film and often in black market circulation

noun:

• Law Regulating Adult Entertainment Businesses (1948 act, replaced in 1984); Entertainment and Amusement Trades Control Law ➜ 風営適正化法

noun:

• World Heritage (cultural, natural, etc.); World Cultural and Natural Heritage (UNESCO)

expression / adverb:

• nowadays; in this day and age

noun:

• Blue Sky with a White Sun; party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)

~の noun / noun:

• freemium; offering both free and premium content in the same product (esp. in online gaming)