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

noun:

• rale; rales; crackles; abnormal rattling sound in the lungs - From German "Rasselgeräusch"

noun:

• new money; nouveau riche; person who has amassed substantial wealth in his lifetime - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• experience; being accustomed (to something); poise in a critical situation

expression / adjective:

• aggressive; pushy; in-your-face

noun:

• pao cai; pow tsai; pickled vegetable, usu. cabbage, found in Szechuan cuisine - From Chinese

noun:

• doh; do; 1st note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming in a field [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• naan; nan; flatbread in Central and South Asian cuisine - From Hindi

expression:

• when it's important; when it comes to the crunch; when push comes to shove; when it comes to the point; in one's hour of need; at the critical moment ➜ いざ

noun:

• arrow view; view on arrow; fragmentary view taken in the direction of an arrow

adverb:

• so; like that; in that way - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• cross-examination; retort; asking in return

expression / adverbial noun:

• more than one can possibly use; countless (e.g. examples); (money) to burn; rolling in (cash)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to violate the law; to have a brush with the law; to have a run-in with the law

noun:

• biased coverage; biased media account; bias in reporting

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to come to like; to become fond of; to fall in love

conjunction:

• while; during; performed in this condition

noun:

• indirect principal offender; indirect perpetrator; principal offender in the second degree - Law term ➜ 直接正犯