noun:

• voluntary insurance; optional insurance; extra insurance; vehicle insurance in addition to the basic mandatory insurance ➜ 強制保険

~の noun:

• gentlemanly; gentlemanlike; in the manner of a gentleman

noun:

• adult child; adult children; adult person psychologically traumatized from being raised in an abusive or dysfunctional family (e.g. by alcoholic parents)

noun:

• priority seat; courtesy seat; seat provided in trains, buses, etc. for the use of the disabled, young children, the elderly, pregnant women, etc.

noun:

• quasi-drug; medicated products; quasi-medicine; product with relatively mild medicinal effect, sold in general stores as well as pharmacies

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• hereafter; the future; formerly; in ancient times

conjunction / particle:

• and yet; though; when; in spite of ➜ くせに

noun:

• without intermission for ten (long) years; with constancy of purpose for ten (long) years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom

noun:

• pilgrim's song; pilgrim's hymn; song in praise of the Buddha - Buddhism term

expression / noun:

• what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind

noun:

• blankety-blank; bleep; used in place of sensitive word (often sexually related) - sometimes also **, ○○, etc. - manga slang ➜ 伏せ字

noun:

• results-oriented approach; resultism; belief in results

adverb / ~と adverb:

• gushingly; copiously; profusely; in a steady stream - onomatopoeia

~の noun:

• while running; while moving; in motion

expression:

• great vigor; tremendous energy; forceful enough to knock down birds in flight [literal] - idiom ➜ 飛ぶ鳥を落とす勢い

expression:

• openly; publicly; in public

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to have a taste for; to be fond of; to have an interest in (e.g. a hobby)
• to be modest; to be prudent

noun:

• short rows (in knitting); short row shaping; knitting in short rows

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to only make work for oneself; to stir up a hornet's nest; to put one's foot in one's mouth - idiom

noun:

• Far East Command; FEC; United States military headquarters in the western Pacific after World War II

expression / noun:

• omoiyari yosan; appreciation payment; financial support towards welfare benefits and allowances of U.S. forces stationed in Japan

noun:

• three-day weekend; long weekend; three holidays in a row

noun:

• battlecry; cheer; cry where one breathes in a large volume of air and then releases it suddenly in a loud cry ➜ 鬨の声

noun / ~する noun:

• rushing at the enemy ➜ 突貫

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• seeing eye to eye; reaching an agreement; coinciding in opinion

noun:

• news media; news organization; newspeople; people in the press