noun:

• reducing dependence on nuclear energy ➜ 減原発

expression:

• what on Earth is this? - colloquialism ➜ 何だこれは【なんだこれは】

expression / ~よい adjective:

• close; intimate; on good terms

noun:

• phone duty; being on call

noun:

• bassinet (esp. on airplane); bassinette

noun:

• parched beans scattered on Setsubun ➜ 節分

expression:

• wretched is the lot of a government official; it is better to work for oneself than to work for someone else - proverb

noun:

• land given to high-ranking government officials (ritsuryo system); land given to pay for the expenses of a government office ➜ 職分田

noun:

• the respective (relative) strength of political parties; distribution of the number of parliamentary seats held by each of the political parties - four character idiom

noun:

• the ways of the world; human nature

noun:

• the first beat of the war drum

noun:

• ancient ways; the feelings of the ancients

expression / noun:

• the lion's share; the cream

noun:

• valve (of the heart and the veins) - Anatomy term

noun:

• Revelation (book of the Bible); the Apocalypse

noun:

• the way of the gods

noun:

• the smaller waterfall (of the two)

expression:

• the lowest (of its kind); the poorest

noun:

• gathering up the ashes of the deceased

noun / ~する noun:

• gathering up the ashes of the deceased

noun:

• the scruff or nape of the neck

noun:

• the (deceased) father of the current emperor

noun:

• the Japanese nation under the ritsuryo codes

noun / ~する noun:

• departure of the emperor from the capital

noun:

• hemorrage in the fundus of the eye