noun / ~の noun:

• fact; given thing; the given ...

expression:

• quick to take a hint; very responsive; quick on the uptake ➜ ツーカー

noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• after-treatment; post-treatment; post-processing; dealing with the aftermath

expression / ~の noun:

• one in a million (chance, etc.); one in ten thousand; in the unlikely event that

noun:

• you are what you eat; slogan encouraging consumption of local seasonal foods for one's health; indivisibility of the body and the land (because the body is made from food and food is made from the land) [literal]

noun:

• popliteal fossa; popliteal space; area behind the knee

noun / ~の noun:

• brow; glabella; middle forehead; area between the eyebrows

noun:

• creation; nature; the Universe

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fess up; to come clean; to confess one's crimes; to spill the beans

~の noun / noun:

• left of center (politically); left-leaning; tending to the left

expression:

• pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand ➜ 見て見ぬ振り

noun / ~の noun:

• below sea level; undersea; beneath the waves

noun:

• phosphorous light; ignis fatuus; will-o'-the-wisp

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

noun:

• one's official name; one's registered name; one's name as it appears on the family register ➜ 戸籍

noun:

• Brahman; Brahma; ultimate reality of the universe (in Hinduism) - From Sanskrit ➜ アートマン

adverb:

• nearly; almost; on the verge (of happening)

noun:

• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner

noun:

• remedial measure; preventive measure; the best way to cope with (meet) the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• Caudata; Urodela; order comprising the salamanders

adjectival noun / noun:

• briars; thicket; the bush

noun:

• without intermission for many years; with constancy of purpose for many years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• improvised; impromptu; extemporaneous; off-the-cuff