noun:

• reduction of armaments; disarmament

expression / interjection:

• O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy - abbreviation ➜ 南無八幡大菩薩【なむはちまんだいぼさつ】

noun / ~する noun:

• loving and taking care of something - archaism

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• rotation of crops

noun:

• art of self-protection

noun:

• a series of paperbacks published since 1964 by Kodansha

noun:

• place for an aeroplane to take target practice (airplane)

expression / noun:

• law of quadratic reciprocity - Mathematics term

noun:

• association of kindred spirits

noun / ~する noun:

• holding of concurrent (official) posts; concurrent post

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to forsake one thing for another

noun:

• plane of polarisation; plane of polarization

noun:

• disgraceful state of affairs

noun / ~する noun:

• partial payment of a debt; reduction of a debt

expression:

• pangs of conscience

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

noun:

• haunts of wicked men

noun:

• prevalence of arbitrariness; rife with arbitrary decisions (acting on one's own authority) - four character idiom

adverb:

• for a moment; even as a joke; even in the slightest degree

noun:

• truth of the middle (all things are in a middle state, being void yet having temporary existence) - Buddhism term ➜ 三諦

expression:

• as a matter of fact; really; truly; entirely; completely; wholly; perfectly ➜ 全く【まったく】

noun:

• cost of equipment

expression:

• losing the means of livelihood ➜ 食い上げ

noun:

• elegant appreciation of nature through artistic pursuits such as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• complete mastery of or over; at one's beck and call