expression / noun:

• fiscal cliff; sharp decline in the United States budget deficit that could have occurred beginning in 2013

expression:

• invoking disaster upon one's mortal enemy; Confusion to the enemy! - four character idiom

noun:

• a bright (rosy) future awaiting one; having the world before one - four character idiom

noun:

• rice and salt; the necessities of life

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to complete most of something; to take a concrete shape; for the most important parts to be done; the nose and eyes are in place [literal] - idiom

godan ~う verb:

• to lie on one's stomach; to sleep while lying on one's stomach; to crawl on the ground; to sprawl

adjectival noun / noun:

• similar; of the same type

noun:

• impudent talk; speaking without thinking; continuing talking even after one has lost an argument; (getting in) the last word; talking back; needless retort

noun:

• left-wing party; party of the left

expression:

• not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again) [literal]

noun:

• blues experienced by college freshmen or workplace recruits shortly after beginning school or work; the May blues

noun:

• semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s

noun:

• Reticulum (constellation); the Reticle - レチクル is from Latin - Astronomy term

noun:

• eastern hemisphere; the Orient ➜ 西半球

noun / ~する noun:

• turn (stroke) of good fortune; one's fortune turning for the better - four character idiom

noun:

• miyairigai (Oncomelania hupensis nosophora); freshwater snail that acts as an intermediate host of the Japanese blood fluke ➜ 片山貝

noun:

• Panjandrum; The Great Panjandrum (rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during WW2)

noun:

• bai zhi (Chinese name for angelica species Angelica dahurica); traditional Chinese cure made from the root of this plant ➜ 鎧草
• Heracleum nipponicum (species of hogweed) ➜ 花独活

noun:

• otitis interna; inflammation of the inner ear

noun:

• Maria Kannon; statue of the Virgin Mary disguised as a Buddhist Kannon statue, used by hidden Christians during the Edo period ➜ マリア・観音

noun:

• tone mark; mark placed in one of the four corners of a hanzi to show the tone in Chinese ➜ 声点

noun:

• stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel
• final desperate tactic - idiom

noun:

• both labor and management; both the workers and the employers - four character idiom

noun:

• courtesy call; making the rounds

noun:

• one house; the same house