noun:

• elementary school (in an educational system operated in Japan between 1941 and 1947)

noun / adjectival noun:

• with no physical defects; in perfectly good health; sound in wind and limb - four character idiom

noun:

• skilled engineer (mechanic) who is clumsy in all other matters; person who gets a great kick out of tinkering with anything mechanical - four character idiom

noun:

• room; chamber
• monk in charge of business in the monks' quarters
• bedroom (of a married couple)
• locule (in a plant ovary)
• atria and ventricles

noun:

• rattan; (rattan) cane (e.g. used in wicker furniture)

noun:

• Japan; name for Japan used in ancient China

noun:

• metal fiber (esp. used in reinforced concrete); steel fiber

noun:

• man who drives a woman around for free; man used by a woman for his car - slang

interjection:

• shh! (used to silence someone); sh! ➜ しっ
• shoo! (used to drive off an approaching animal, etc.) ➜ しっ

suffix / adjective:

• -ish; -like; -looking - after a noun, the -nai stem of a verb, or repetitive syllables

noun:

• (unscrupulous) business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience; (unscrupulous) sales methods used by someone falsely claiming to represent a charitable (social welfare) organization - four character idiom

expression:

• meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; likewise; equally; at the same time - usu. その一方で
• in contrast

noun:

• victimization by media; trial by media; damage caused by exaggerated or false reporting (e.g. that one has committed a crime)

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• upright and clean-handed; pure in heart and with a clean conscience - four character idiom

noun:

• having an open hand and no end or honor tiles (yaku, not allowed in some rules); having only suited tiles between 2 and 8 inclusive and having called tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 断ヤオ九

noun:

• ruling and opposition parties; parties in and out of power

noun:

• humans and animals; humans and beasts
• beast in human form ➜ 人面獣心

noun:

• tiles used to cover nail holes in cypress bark roofing for the purpose of waterproofing

noun:

• freestanding building, often in a park, used for receptions, dinners, etc. - From English "restaurant house"

noun:

• kakko; Japanese hourglass drum, played with sticks on both sides, traditionally used in gagaku - Music term

noun:

• pseudonym used when calling in or writing to a radio program - From English "radio name"

noun:

• filling in (e.g. between speakers at a meeting, acts at a show); material used to fill in (between speeches at a meeting, etc.); anecdote

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to gear (engage) with; to be in gear (mesh)
• to bite each other

noun:

• distance of eight sun (approx. 24 cm)
• dish or tray of this size (esp. used in kaiseki cuisine to serve several kinds of delicacies); food served in such a dish
• var. of thick, traditional Japanese paper

expression / noun:

• hard work gone unnoticed; thankless task; a dance under a veranda [literal] - idiom
• off-stage dance that used to be performed on the 22th of the 2nd month in the lunar calendar in Osaka's Tennouji - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• return to the United States

noun:

• term used to refer to Japanese-American children (nisei) who were sent by their parents to Japan before WW2 to receive their schooling