noun:

• the major leagues - Baseball term

noun:

• problems of the elderly
• problems of an aging society

noun:

• Budget Committee of the upper house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• euphoria experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work ➜ 五月病・六月病

counter:

• the n-th - indicates position in a sequence ➜ 番目

noun:

• the six internal organs (large intestine, small intestine, gallbladder, stomach, san jiao, urinary bladder) ➜ 三焦

expression:

• the whole year's plans should be made on New Year's Day

noun:

• poem written by the Emperor or a member of the imperial family

noun:

• low-lying land reclaimed from the sea - From Dutch "polder"

noun:

• cupboard on the floor

expression:

• the wrongdoer never lacks a pretext; even thieves have their reasons - proverb

noun:

• calligraphy technique of holding the brush perpendicularly, lower arm raised, and elbow held away from the body ➜ 直筆【ちょくひつ】・懸腕

noun:

• world of the theater (theatre)

noun:

• person from the same province, town, village, etc.

expression:

• the parent is the best judge of the child - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• the greatest of the day - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to step out of the bath

noun:

• transit (of a planet) over the sun ➜ 太陽面通過【たいようめんつうか】

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) flowers are abashed and the moon hides [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 閉月羞花【へいげつしゅうか】・羞月閉花【しゅうげつへいか】・沈魚落雁【ちんぎょらくがん】

noun:

• freedom of the sea

noun / ~する noun:

• conveying the views of the subordinates to the rulers ➜ 下達上通・上達

noun:

• ninth month in the lunar calendar ➜ 長月

noun:

• the friendly atmosphere of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods - four character idiom

noun:

• the shoemaking industry

noun:

• eve of the anniversary of a person's death