noun:

• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (formerly Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications)

noun:

• bottle of whiskey (whisky) that a bar customer buys, writes his name on, keeps on a shelf at the bar, and drinks little by little on successive visits - From English "keep bottle"

noun:

• envelope containing betrothal money and given as part of a betrothal gift

noun:

• vital part (of the body); tender spot; weak point; vitals
• key point; essential point; crux (of a problem); heart (of a matter)
• male crotch (as a target in fighting) - colloquialism ➜ 金的

expression / adjective:

• being driven into a corner; having no way out; being caught between a rock and a hard place

expression:

• parents may risk life and limb for their children (like a pheasant when the plains are burning or a crane on a cold night) - obscure term

noun / ~の noun:

• a line; a streak; a stripe; a ray (of light); a wisp (of smoke)

noun:

• one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one passage (in a book)
• one matter (affair, event, case, incident)
• the same logic; the same reason - archaism

noun:

• simultaneously running for a seat in a single-member constituency and a seat in a proportionally representated constituency

noun:

• flowers and fruit; blossom and fruit
• name and reality ［はなみ］
• form and content; appearance and substance ［かじつ］ - esp. in poetry

noun:

• top and bottom; up and down; high and low; above and below; upper and lower ends

~の noun / noun:

• upside-down ➜ 上下になる

noun:

• sugidama; ball made from sprigs of Japanese cedar, traditionally hung in the eaves of sake breweries

noun:

• grated daikon and chili; whole daikon with a chili notched inside and then grated together - Food term
• grated daikon and carrot - Food term

noun:

• state of a country (population, resources, etc.); condition of a country; strength of a country

adjectival noun:

• plausible (e.g. of a rumour); believable (e.g. of a story); specious (e.g. of an argument); credible (e.g. of a lie); looking very like the truth

noun:

• Asian countries with strong anti-Japanese sentiment (i.e. China, South Korea, and North Korea) - colloquialism

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• upright and clean-handed; pure in heart and with a clean conscience - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• meeting and parting; gathering and scattering; alignment and realignment; alternating alliance and rupture; alternating cooperation and defection - four character idiom

noun:

• discrete set - Mathematics term

noun:

• stipend given to a designated person, such as a noble, and which was paid by a designated household (ritsuryo system) ➜ 封戸

noun:

• word - archaism
• waka (classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka) ➜ 和歌

noun:

• sex establishment (as regulated by a specific Japanese law)

noun:

• type of alloy of copper and zinc (brass) with zinc at about 33-67% used to solder metals like copper and iron

noun / ~の noun:

• living flesh; flesh and blood
• physical body of Buddha or a bodhisattva ［しょうじん］ - Buddhism term

noun:

• head of a pipe, incl. the bowl and stem attachment
• neck; head - colloquialism

noun:

• temple kitchen; monastery kitchen - Buddhism term
• quarters of a head priest (and his family) - Buddhism term

noun:

• ancient soldier's hat
• common soldier - abbreviation ➜ 陣笠連
• rank and file (of a political party) - abbreviation ➜ 陣笠連