noun:

• conjugal harmony; concord between husband and wife

noun:

• Lagomorpha; order comprising the rabbits, hares and pikas

noun:

• sushi rice; rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar and salt - Food term ➜ 寿司飯【すしめし】・舎利【しゃり】

noun:

• hourglass economy; economy having large upper and lower classes and a small middle class

noun:

• Hominoidea; superfamily of apes and humans

expression / noun:

• the three Rs; reading, writing and arithmetic

noun:

• Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

noun:

• thirteen orphans; winning hand containing one of each terminal and honor tile - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 国士無双

expression:

• having exhausted every available means; having broken one's sword and exhausted one's arrows [literal]

noun:

• Columbiformes; order of birds comprising pigeons and doves

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to rain heavily; to be raining cats and dougs - idiom

noun:

• the whole creation; everything in heaven and earth - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• coming together; gathering and coming

adverb / ~と adverb:

• rapidly; vigorously; by leaps and bounds; steadily - onomatopoeia

noun / suffix noun:

• north of; and northward

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of tomorrow and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• semi suite; large hotel room with separate sleeping and living room areas

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• semi-sweet

noun:

• collation; examining and comparing ➜ 校合

noun:

• pasha; honorary title in Ottoman Empire and pre-republican Egypt - From Turkish "paşa"

~と adverb / adverb:

• click; sound of a camera shutter - onomatopoeia ➜ パシャッと

noun / ~する noun:

• Galapagosization; widespread design of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species

noun:

• property ward; special local public body which has its own property, etc. and bears the expenses for it ➜ 特別地方公共団体【とくべつちほうこうきょうだんたい】

noun:

• Lagomorpha; order of rabbits, hares and pikas

noun:

• complete mastery of or over; at one's beck and call

noun:

• elegant; handsome and refined

noun:

• the hole (between third and short); area between the third baseman and shortstop - Baseball term