noun:

• an inferior

noun:

• influx of Chinese pop culture (into Japan) - From Chinese "hualiu" ➜ 韓流

noun:

• forest or grove of trees surrounding a residence

noun:

• being two sides of the same coin; being the same (while appearing different)

expression:

• Very sincerely yours ➜ 不一

~の noun / noun:

• peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled - orig. meaning - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• expiration of a term; becoming overdue

noun:

• mother-of-pearl

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

noun:

• letter affixed to an arrow

noun:

• Council of Ministers for Global Environment Conservation

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to harm oneself in an attempt to harm someone else; to spit at the heavens and have one's spit land back on one's face [literal] - proverb ➜ 天に唾する

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• (just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine) - four character idiom

noun:

• pair of compasses

noun:

• test of significance; significance test - Mathematics term

noun:

• maid of honor; maid of honour; lady-in-waiting

noun:

• the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics - four character idiom

noun:

• type of fever

noun:

• Sanriku earthquake of 869 CE

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to have a smattering knowledge of

noun / ~の noun:

• photograph of an astral body

noun:

• child of the times; modern kid; with-it youngster

noun:

• presentation of a draft bill (to parliament, diet, etc.)

noun:

• god of death; Death

noun:

• speaker of the Lower House

noun:

• three sides of right triangle (minor cathetus, major cathetus & hypotenuse) - obscure term

noun:

• an enlarged issue