expression / noun:

• how it came about; how it originated; how it happened; the origins of the imbroglio

noun:

• wide turn; detour; the long way around

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to employ one's secret weapon; to play one's trump card; to use the ace up one's sleeve - idiom

noun:

• os uteri; cervical os; orifice of the uterus

noun:

• cutover; cut-over; starting new (IT) equipment; transferring from the old to a new (hardware and/or software) system - IT term

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get a salary (from); to receive a stipend (from); to be on the payroll (of)

noun:

• righteousness; path of righteousness; path of duty; the right track

noun:

• round-up (e.g. of criminals); wholesale arrest; catching the whole herd with one throw - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• latent; hidden; secret; behind the scenes Antonym: 顕然

noun:

• hardship now, pleasure later; seeking pleasure only after dealing with difficulties; seeking pleasure only after the happiness of the people is assured (a precept to be observed by a ruler) - four character idiom

noun:

• axe murder incident (Aug. 18, 1976); poplar tree incident; killing of two American army officers by North Korean soldiers in the DMZ

noun:

• entertainment; fun; amusement of the company

noun:

• state of society; social conditions; order of the world

noun:

• way; course; the only way

noun:

• surf fishing; rock fishing; fishing from rocks by the shore

noun:

• batten door; battened door; ledged door; strong door with crosspieces placed on the reverse side

noun:

• loess; yellow sand; bai; dust from the Yellow River region (China) ➜ 黄砂【こうさ】

adjectival noun / noun:

• kill-joy; wet-blanket; spoiling the fun

expression:

• to turn a deaf ear to; to not listen to; to not get the message

noun:

• problems that affect a period of time; hardships peculiar to an age; hard problems of the times

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun:

• law enforcement authority; police authorities; the police

expression / ichidan verb:

• to demand gratitude; to make a favour of something; to remind of a favour done to someone; to emphasize the favour one has done ➜ 恩に掛ける

noun:

• in-home separation; quasi-divorce; marriage that has broken down but where the wife and husband still live together without getting a divorce

expression / noun:

• tempting thing; (too much of a) temptation; something that shouldn't be seen; the last thing one needs to see