noun:

• empowering women; promoting women's contribution; removing obstacles to women's full participation in society and the workplace

noun:

• existing law; existing laws; laws in force

noun / ~する noun:

• whispering; murmuring; talking in a low voice

expression / noun:

• morning star; Lucifer; Phosphorus; Venus in the morning sky ➜ 宵の明星

expression / noun:

• sic; sic erat scriptum; the quoted matter has been transcribed exactly as found in the source text ➜ 原文ママ【げんぶんママ】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to clean up; to clear away; to put in order

adjectival noun:

• sentimental; on an emotional level; in one's heart ➜ 心情

expression / adjective:

• feel uneasy; on tenterhooks; in suspense ➜ 気が気でない

noun:

• Self-Strengthening Movement; Westernization Movement; political reform movement in China during the late Qing dynasty

noun:

• Bopomofo; Zhuyin fuhao; Chinese transliteration system now used mainly in Taiwan

adjective:

• seeming like an excuse; seeming like a justification; defensive; in an apologetic tone

noun:

• muscle-brain; meathead; hot-blooded idiot; person who charges in before thinking - slang

noun:

• doorstop interview; doorstep interview; on-the-move interview; informal interview in which reporters surround a public figure and prod him for an off-the-cuff response

adjectival noun / noun:

• heartless; cruel; causes and actions; results of actions in previous life

godan ~つ verb:

• to let a fox into the henhouse; to do something dangerous; to let loose a tiger in the marketplace [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• despising; disdaining; scorning; holding in contempt

noun / ~する noun:

• going into a huddle (over); holding secret (closed-door) conference (about); laying heads together in secret consultation - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• incorrigibly; doggedly; in spite of one's negative experiences ➜ 性懲りもない【しょうこりもない】

noun:

• axe murder incident (Aug. 18, 1976); poplar tree incident; killing of two American army officers by North Korean soldiers in the DMZ

noun / ~する noun:

• collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in - archaism ➜ 崩壊

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off

adverb:

• for the present; for the time being; at present; in the meantime ➜ 差し当たり

godan ~す verb:

• to include; to welcome (in a group); to let in - Kansai dialect ➜ 寄せる
• to bring near; to put close; to let come near - archaism

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun:

• communality; community; having something in common