(n) military analyst
(n) UN Economic and Social Council
(n) military onslaught
(n) Japan International Cooperation Agency (1974)
JICA
(P)
(n) International Criminal Court
ICC
(n) (obsc) United Nations Secretariat
(n) (abbr) (obsc) United Nations Security Council
(exp) to apply for a job
to apply for work
(exp) to achieve a task
(n) (comp) postmortem dump
(exp) in view of the facts
(n) clausula rebus sic stantibus (legal principle that agreements become non-binding if there is a major, unforeseeable change of circumstances)
(n) (comp) Office Document Language
(n) social insurance office
(exp) (id) love and reason do not go together
(n) Trusteeship Council
(exp) to entice a person to do something wrong
(exp) don't think it's somebody else's problem, it could very well be (have been) yours (mine)
(exp) (id) Lose a fly to catch a trout
small sacrifice in a great cause
(n) Shanghai Incident
January 28 Incident (1932)
(n) Battle of Shanghai (1937)
(n) deplorable situation
(n) earthquakes, thunder, fires, fathers (this proverb compares the traditional Japanese father with other things which are generally feared)
(n) (comp) long distance telephone company
(n) special-purpose entity
SPE
(n) independent power producer
IPP
(exp) to do a silly thing
(n) Ikeda Elementary School massacre (June 8, 2001)
(exp) (uk) as often is the case
(n) (comp) recabling