noun:

• people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced Continental culture to the Japanese

expression:

• being multi-talented means never really being especially good at any one thing; jack of all trades, master of none

noun:

• cheap lodging or flophouse, especially in a skid row area or slum

noun:

• especially dangerous designated criminal group; especially dangerous designated boryokudan ➜ 指定暴力団

noun:

• BRIC, BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China), referring especially to the fast-growing economies of these countries

noun:

• temple; shrine, especially one at which worshipers pray for favors; prayer hall

noun:

• Chinese bronze inscriptions; type of lettering used on metal objects, especially in China during the Yin and Zhou dynasties

adverb:

• expressly; specially; doing something especially rather than incidentally

noun / ~する noun / intransitive verb / prefix noun:

• occurring frequently; being susceptible; age, body part, group of people, etc. in which a disease or condition occurs especially frequently - Medicine term

noun:

• specified disaster; disaster of extreme severity; large-scale (natural, etc.) disaster identified as especially disruptive - Law term

noun / ~する noun:

• criticism (by a teacher or coach, with commentary, especially at a poetry reading); review; critique

noun:

• writing (especially of a Zen monk); penmanship

noun / ~する noun:

• pair of persons (especially a married couple) being intimate and harmonious; being happily married - four character idiom ➜ 琴瑟相和す

noun / ~の noun:

• hot water or liquid (especially that below the surface of the earth)

noun:

• (insectile, especially moth) scales

noun / ~の noun:

• in operation (of a machine, especially security cameras); in use; in action

noun:

• period of rapid growth (especially Japan's period of rapid economic growth after WWII)

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

noun:

• "sushi mat" (bamboo mat used in food preparation, especially to roll makizushi) ➜ 巻寿司

noun / ~の noun:

• aliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature

noun:

• chanpuru; champuru; Okinawan stir-fry dish, usually containing vegetables (especially bitter melon), tofu, meat or fish - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

noun:

• a child; one child
• one of several children, especially the son and heir
• one stone (in the game of go) ➜ 一目【いちもく】

adverb:

• purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); deliberately; intentionally
• not necessarily; not particularly; not especially - used with neg. verb
• definitely not - used with neg. verb - archaism

noun:

• holy water
• urine, especially as relates to urolagnia or urophilia

noun:

• resistance - From French
• popular resistance against a military invasion (especially of that by the French against the Nazis in World War II)