noun:

• maintenance of safety; safety guarantee; ensuring safety

noun:

• collectively, the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election ➜ 小泉チルドレン

noun:

• new members of society (esp. after turning 20 or joining a company); new working adults

expression:

• innermost depths of one's heart

noun:

• fine monk's robes worn by members of the imperial household, nobility, councilors (councillors), etc.

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to ask the opinion of (a superior)

noun / ~する noun:

• adhering or embedding of wear debris in the opposing surface

noun:

• useless member of society; hopeless case; failure

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to press for an answer; to shower questions on someone

noun:

• residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces (Edo period) ➜ 与力・同心

noun:

• sense of touch; sense of being touched; tactile sense

expression:

• views in and around the city of Kyoto (paintings and drawings) ➜ 図・洛中洛外

expression / adverb:

• without thinking of the consequences

noun:

• manga on the theme of male homosexual love - from ヤマなし、オチなし、意味なし. Sometimes 矢追.

noun:

• Budget Committee of the lower house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• precincts of the Imperial palace

expression:

• it often takes time to bear the fruit of one's actions; planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years (to bear fruit), persimmons take eight [literal] - proverb

noun:

• time of the crime

noun / ~する noun:

• gathering of people

noun:

• opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines

noun:

• rustling sound of silk cloth; scroop

noun:

• monk's self-chosen pseudonym

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to send a person on an errand

expression:

• thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye - idiom

noun:

• faculty of informatics