~の noun:

• study (e.g. material); learning; for studying

expression / adjective:

• feel uneasy; on tenterhooks; in suspense ➜ 気が気でない

noun:

• Self-Strengthening Movement; Westernization Movement; political reform movement in China during the late Qing dynasty

noun:

• Bopomofo; Zhuyin fuhao; Chinese transliteration system now used mainly in Taiwan

adjective:

• seeming like an excuse; seeming like a justification; defensive; in an apologetic tone

noun:

• muscle-brain; meathead; hot-blooded idiot; person who charges in before thinking - slang

noun:

• sash roller; door roller; roller for a sliding door

noun:

• doorstop interview; doorstep interview; on-the-move interview; informal interview in which reporters surround a public figure and prod him for an off-the-cuff response

adverb:

• self first; striving to be first; scrambling for

expression:

• means; is; as for ➜ って

adjectival noun / noun:

• heartless; cruel; causes and actions; results of actions in previous life

noun:

• luxury grocery item (e.g. alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco); indulgence; something consumed for taste or stimulant effect rather than nourishment

godan ~つ verb:

• to let a fox into the henhouse; to do something dangerous; to let loose a tiger in the marketplace [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• despising; disdaining; scorning; holding in contempt

noun / ~する noun:

• going into a huddle (over); holding secret (closed-door) conference (about); laying heads together in secret consultation - four character idiom

noun:

• advanced juvenile training school; special reformatory; juvenile hall for grave offenders

expression / adverb:

• incorrigibly; doggedly; in spite of one's negative experiences ➜ 性懲りもない【しょうこりもない】

noun:

• axe murder incident (Aug. 18, 1976); poplar tree incident; killing of two American army officers by North Korean soldiers in the DMZ

noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party ➜ 合コン

noun:

• (spent) fuel pool; SFP; storage pool for spent nuclear fuel ➜ 使用済み燃料プール

noun / ~する noun:

• collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in - archaism ➜ 崩壊

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off

godan ~す verb:

• to include; to welcome (in a group); to let in - Kansai dialect ➜ 寄せる
• to bring near; to put close; to let come near - archaism

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

conjunction:

• as such; that being so; for that reason