noun:

• South Korean comics (often of a style similar to manga) - From Korean "manhwa"

noun:

• crab shell (often ground or crushed and used as fertilizer); crab shell meal

noun:

• breakfast set (often a drink and toast); breakfast special; special breakfast offer - From English "morning set"

noun:

• thick toast with honey (and often with fruit, icecream, etc.) - From English "honey toast"

noun:

• waders (waterproof pants often fitted with boots, used mostly by fishermen)

noun:

• stone statue of Jizo (often found along roads) ➜ 地蔵
• taciturn person; person uninterested in romance

noun:

• ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra) - Buddhism term ➜ 如是我聞
• ten thusnesses (in Tendai) - abbreviation ➜ 十如是

noun:

• reformist local government (often left-of-center); progressive local government

noun:

• dysfunction (often medical); malfunction; insufficiency

noun:

• thick toast with honey (and often with fruit, icecream, etc.) - sometimes ハニ塔 - abbreviation ➜ ハニートースト

noun:

• section of a room next to the alcove (where shelves are often placed)

noun:

• an extremely great number (often said to be 100 million) - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "nayuta"

numeric:

• 10^60 (or 10^72)

noun:

• fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires)
• New Year's ritual at Izumo Shrine
• festival involving fire dedicated to the gods

noun:

• traditional Kyoto-style confectionery (often used in tea ceremony)

noun:

• any of a number of secret societies of ancient China (often opposed to the government)

noun:

• burial urn (often two-storey); funerary urn

noun:

• Atai (post-Taika hereditary title often given to regional administrators) ➜ 国造・姓【かばね】

noun:

• cold political relations but hot economical relations (often said about China-Japan relations)

noun:

• pacifist constitution (often applied to the Japanese constitution); constitution which outlaws use of arms ➜ 日本国憲法

noun:

• inzimino (Italian chickpea stew, often including squid or cuttlefish) - From Italian

noun:

• soft, crumpled, unlacquered headwear (often worn by soldiers under their helmets from the Kamakura period onward) ➜ 烏帽子

noun:

• identity or background check (often to see if someone is a burakumin) - colloquialism

noun:

• Chinese name (often of plants and animals)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be invited (often to perform for an audience); to be called

noun:

• one-click fraud (online fraud and extortion technique often used by spammers)