pronoun:

• those (near the second person)

noun / ~する noun:

• following (in the footsteps of)
• catching up with; coming level with

particle / conjunction:

• (at the end of a phrase) notes one (of several) reasons

noun:

• JP Bank (former Postal Savings Bank, created when the Postal Services were privatized)

noun:

• Southern Cross (asterism formed with the brightest four stars of the constellation Crux) - Astronomy term ➜ 南十字星【みなみじゅうじせい】

noun:

• snap (e.g. of the wrist in baseball)
• snapshot (esp. of people) - abbreviation ➜ スナップショット・スナップ写真
• snap fastener; press stud ➜ ホック

noun:

• talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; chat
• talk show - abbreviation ➜ トークショー
• toque

noun:

• early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period); early Japanese Christian - From Portuguese "cristao"

noun:

• mammoth (esp. the woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius)

noun:

• Zipangu (the name for Japan used by Marco Polo) - From Italian

noun:

• canary (esp. the island canary, Serinus canaria) - From Portuguese

noun:

• Washington, DC (capital of the United States of America)
• Washington (US state) ［華盛頓］

noun:

• denomination (reducing the face value of currency after inflation) - abbreviation

noun:

• Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• zaire (currency of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

noun / ~する noun:

• punch (with the fist)
• punching (a hole); hole punch

noun:

• punch (drink)
• punch (in a song, speech, etc.); impact

noun:

• betta (esp. the Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens)

~する noun:

• to block (e.g. the way)

noun:

• block (lump of something (usu. square), area of town, etc.)
• bloc

noun / ~する noun:

• block; physical record (e.g. on magnetic tape) - IT term

noun:

• patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; financial supporter
• sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha) ➜ 芸者・旦那
• patron; master; manager; boss

noun:

• top star (esp. male lead role in the all-female Takarazuka musical theater troupe); major celebrity

noun:

• southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south) - archaism - derogatory term
• South-East Asia - archaism
• Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies) - archaism ➜ 紅毛

prefix:

• exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style)

noun:

• (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm) - usu.ナンバ
• food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions - abbreviation ➜ 南蛮煮【なんばんに】

noun:

• bibliography (i.e. the study of books)
• bibliology (i.e. the study of books, booklore and bibliography)

noun:

• first day of spring (according to the traditional lunisolar calendar, approx. Feb. 4) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• ninja (persons in feudal Japan who used ninjutsu for the purposes of espionage, assassination, sabotage, etc.) ➜ 忍術

noun:

• divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century)
• kamikaze ［かみかぜ］

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to flutter (in the wind); to wave; to flap; to fly
• to turn over; to flip over
• to suddenly change (attitude, opinion, etc.); to suddenly switch; to alter; to flip