noun:

• rice cakes made after the customer has paid for them

noun:

• pulp fiction
• workbook for college exam takers (published by Kyougakusha)

noun:

• belt used for back support after fifth month of pregnancy

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to perform religious rites for the repose of a soul

noun:

• horizontal transparency; clearness (of water); visibility (esp. for scuba diving)

noun:

• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNHCR

noun:

• persons who convince female celebrities to pose nude for photoshoots

noun:

• light used for brightly lighting up a plaza, building, etc.

expression / noun:

• playoff for the tournament win with three wrestlers participating - Sumo term

expression / adjective:

• expensive to rent
• wrestler ranked too high for his abilities - Sumo term

noun:

• ninja throwing knives - colloquialism
• mediaeval farming tool for digging, prying, etc. - orig. meaning

noun:

• late Edo-period pejorative for the Dutch; red-haired barbarian [literal]

noun:

• welcome party for new students, club members, etc.

noun:

• medicine left by a salesman, and paid for when used

noun:

• cosmopolitan (international) way of thinking; feeling for the wider world - four character idiom

noun:

• mercenary spirit; commercial motives; a nose for profit; moneygrubbing disposition - four character idiom

noun:

• winter, night, and rainy weather; the ideal conditions for reading - four character idiom

noun:

• lintel (lacking the grooves needed for a sliding door) - Architecture term ➜ 蹴放し

adverb:

• certainly; for sure
• distinctly; clearly; exactly
• firmly; tightly

noun:

• staple (for a stapler) ➜ 針

noun:

• staple (for a stapler) ➜ 針

noun:

• staple (for a stapler) ➜ 芯

noun:

• word-hunting; search for and censorship of politically incorrect words

expression:

• cheap fish for the masses (e.g. sardines, mackerel, pike)

expression / noun:

• good for nothing (of large people); big but useless - idiom