noun:

• cutlery; knife and fork - obsolete term

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

noun:

• 1932 Theses; Comintern policy documents urging overthrow of Japan's imperial and metayage systems

expression:

• avarice brings doom upon oneself; if a hawk-eagle tries to catch two boars at once, the boars will try to run in opposite directions, splitting the hawk-eagle into two and killing it - proverb

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

adverb:

• repeatedly; over and over again

noun:

• unlawful trespass; occupying a property and refusing to leave

noun:

• rebreather; provides a breathing gas containing oxygen and recycles exhaled gas

noun:

• mobile website; website oriented to smartphones and tablets - IT term

noun:

• one's wife; one's wife and daughter or daughters

noun:

• yōkan; jellied dessert made from red bean paste, agar, and sugar

noun:

• LaTeX; word processor and document markup language - IT term ➜ テフ

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