noun:

• a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies; a question of who is responsible (to blame) - four character idiom

noun:

• top crease of a sleeve (of traditional Japanese clothing)
• sleeve cap (of Western clothing)

noun:

• international order

noun / ~する noun:

• verification of accounts; checking figures; arithmetic check

noun:

• number of words
• vocality

noun:

• line of force

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to submit (a plan) to a committee for deliberation

noun:

• log on the roof of a shrine set perpendicular to the ridgepole

noun:

• greatest hero (mastermind) of the age

noun:

• beginning of a dispute

noun:

• lines of communication

noun:

• degenerative eye disorder caused by cloudiness in front of the pupil - obscure term ➜ 底翳

noun:

• special effects director

noun:

• ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of a gate
• (Edo-period) house confinement

noun:

• feeling of the impending dissolution of parliament

noun:

• clearing of the river water

noun:

• ceremony for moving a deity to a new site - Shintō term ➜ 遷座【せんざ】・遷宮祭【せんぐうさい】

noun:

• generation of young people (esp. of the 1970s) apathetic about social issues

noun:

• guardian Ksitigarbha of childbirth (bodhisattva) ➜ 地蔵

noun:

• Chinese god of war - archaism

noun:

• source of protein; protein source

noun:

• sack for charcoal

noun:

• simulation of a person

noun:

• the art of medicine