noun:

• Far East Command; FEC; United States military headquarters in the western Pacific after World War II

noun / ~する noun:

• beating time with one's hands; clapping to the beat

noun:

• making a careless move (in go, shogi, etc.); responding to an opponent's move without proper thought

noun:

• (unscrupulous) business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience; (unscrupulous) sales methods used by someone falsely claiming to represent a charitable (social welfare) organization - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• good thing; nice thing ➜ いい事【いいこと】
• good excuse; good grounds; good opportunity - usu. as 〜を良いことに(して) ➜ いい事【いいこと】

interjection:

• interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response - female language ➜ いい事【いいこと】

noun:

• presence (e.g. of an observer); observation; observer; witness - sometimes written 立ち合い
• trading session (at an exchange)

noun:

• administration established through an unprincipled political coalition; government of convenience; cabinet created through an unholy alliance - four character idiom

noun:

• marginal seal (special seal affixed into the margins of an official document to indicate that any later revisions to the document are valid)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to incline; to lean; to tip; to tilt; to slant; to bend; to list
• to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to pour one's energy into
• to ruin; to squander; to empty
• to drink (alcohol)

expression / adjective:

• of poor quality; poor-quality; inferior quality

noun / ~する noun:

• racing (an engine); idling (an engine) ➜ 空回り
• going in circles (esp. argument, discussion, etc.); spinning one's wheels

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to recognize; to recognise; to observe; to notice
• to deem; to judge; to assess
• to approve; to deem acceptable; to allow
• to admit; to accept; to confess (to a charge)
• to watch steadily; to observe carefully
• to renown; to give renown to; to appreciate; to acknowledge

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be (standing) together, an arm across the other's shoulder - contraction of 肩を寄せる

noun:

• komejirushi; Japanese punctuation mark similar in usage to an asterisk

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to be fully satisfied with (e.g. an explanation or apology) ➜ 釈然

noun:

• win an election due to another's death or disqualification

noun:

• learning good manners through apprenticeship (to an upper-class family) - four character idiom

expression:

• incredible danger; (handing a) sword to an insane person [literal] - sensitive

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to buy an advance sales ticket (for a reserved seat)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to recover from an illness (and put away one's sickbed) - obscure term ➜ 床を上げる

noun:

• top up (e.g. a little bit to remedy an insufficiency) ➜ 足しになる

noun:

• person stranded due to mass transit disruptions after an earthquake, etc.

noun / ~する noun:

• song and dance performed as an offering to the gods ➜ 神楽

noun:

• person stranded due to mass transit disruptions after an earthquake, etc. ➜ 帰宅困難者

noun / ~する noun:

• pickling; soaking a metal in an acidic solution to remove impurities

noun:

• turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn (attached to an arrow to sound when fired) - abbreviation ➜ 蕪
• arrow with such a whistle attached ➜ 鏑矢