noun:

• stir-frying then boiling in liquid sauce; food that has been stir-fried and boiled in liquid sauce - Ryūkyū dialect ➜ 炒め煮

noun:

• relations with America; relationship with America

noun / ~する noun:

• putting to the sword

noun:

• mochi freeze-dried in the winter air

expression / noun:

• the (cool) summer moon

noun:

• everywhere in the capital (e.g. Tokyo); everyone in the capital

~の noun:

• resident in China

expression / adjective:

• not good with figures

noun:

• answers in the Diet

godan ~る verb:

• to engage in lesbian sexual activity

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to gather in large numbers (of people); to hang out (as a large group)
• to assemble (as a military unit or posse); to be quartered (in a particular location)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drink the night away

expression:

• inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable - proverb

noun:

• referee officiating the third highest division - Sumo term

noun:

• vegetables pickled in soy sauce

noun:

• winning wrestler who remains ringside in case his involvement is needed in pre-bout rituals - Sumo term

adverb:

• once in a while; occasionally; seldom; at long intervals

noun:

• the same committee

noun:

• coeval with heaven and earth - four character idiom

expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; judge a man by living with him, and try a horse by riding him [literal] - proverb

noun:

• drawing a tile from the wall - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• win with a self-drawn tile - Mahjong term
• winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (yaku); winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ 門前清自摸和

noun:

• control of the seas

noun / ~する noun:

• piling up or covering with earth

noun:

• built-in stabilizer ➜ 自動安定装置

noun:

• 1585 edict by Toyotomi Hideyoshi which banned war between feudal lords in Japan