noun:

• the "ha" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ha, hi, fu, he, ho)

noun:

• eighteenth day of the month
• eighteen days

noun:

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

noun:

• rear part of the tongue

noun:

• three-forked road; junction of three roads

expression:

• gap in the law

expression:

• In the beginning was the Word (John 1:1)

noun:

• Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods)

expression:

• no heat or cold lasts over the equinox - proverb

noun:

• justifiable cause for noncompliance with the law

noun:

• government official working for the daizaifu - archaism ➜ 大宰府

expression:

• the doting parent's purse is plundered; the thief caught turns out to be one's own son [literal] - proverb

noun:

• crematorium smoke rising in the sky

noun:

• land of the gods; Japan

noun:

• the many and the few

noun:

• sexual harassment from colleagues in the work environment

noun:

• pilgrimage to the three main Kumano shrines ➜ 熊野三社

noun:

• three or four days

noun / ~する noun:

• burying a dead person's personal belongings with the body

expression:

• sometimes the best gain is to lose - proverb

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to compete for the first place; to be one of the best

noun / ~する noun:

• viewing something in the company of one's superior

noun:

• invoking the coercive power of the state; calling upon the power of the state

noun:

• twisting of the truth in one's writing; playing with text to distort the truth

expression / ichidan verb:

• to rake over the coals; to scold; to chastise; to roast - idiom
• to burn moxa on the skin - orig. meaning