noun:

• program review; budget screening; review and prioritization of government programs

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• drearily; with desolation; with loneliness (esp. the rain and wind)

adverb:

• turning around; spinning around; curling up - onomatopoeia ➜ くるり

adverb / ~する noun:

• round and charming (e.g. eyes) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• straw skirt; grass skirt; traditionally worn by hunters and fishermen

noun / ~する noun:

• seeing clearly; seeing without obstruction; looking into every nook and corner

expression:

• inflexible people; heartless people; Buddhist images of wood, metal, and stone [literal]

noun:

• price variance between domestic and overseas markets; local-foreign price difference

expression:

• pricking up one's ears and listening; listening attentively - from the Disney movie Dumbo

noun:

• shop that handles Western goods (esp. Western-style apparel and accessories) ➜ 洋品店

noun:

• city god; guardian deity of a city and esp. its marketplace

noun:

• Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident)
• ocean; sea

prefix:

• foreign; Western; European

noun:

• Kinosternidae; family comprising the mud turtles and musk turtles

noun:

• combination of riichi, tan'yao, and pinfu (common trio of yaku) - abbreviation - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 立直【リーチ】・断ヤオ【タンヤオ】・平和【ピンフ】・タンピン

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to stand upright with arms and/or legs spread
• to dodge

noun:

• The Winter War (between Finland and the Soviet Union 1939-1940)

noun:

• The Continuation War (between Finland and the Soviet Union 1941-1944)

noun:

• Law for Stabilization of Supply, Demand and Prices of Staple Food

noun:

• Law for Stabilization of Supply, Demand and Prices of Staple Food ➜ 食糧法

pre-noun adjectival:

• The Great (e.g. in film and book titles); The Grand

noun:

• lunch monitor; student responsible for school lunch distribution and clean-up

noun:

• Mandala of the Two Realms; Womb Realm and Matrix Realm Mandalas - Buddhism term ➜ 両界曼荼羅【りょうかいまんだら】

adverb / ~の noun:

• again and again; repeatedly

conjunction:

• and; as well as

noun / suffix noun:

• south of; and south

noun:

• offerings; offerings and worship