noun:

• Tsushima Faction (of the LDP)

noun:

• Sanno Shinto (branch of Shinto formed in the Tendai school of Buddhism)

noun:

• bow collector (type of power contact on the top of electric trains) - From German "Bugel"

noun:

• Chaetodon (genus of tropical butterflyfish in the family Chaetodontidae)

noun:

• customs procedures (at the airport, etc.)

noun:

• avulsion (e.g. removal of land by the action of water)

noun:

• Last Judgment (judgment of mankind to take place when the world ends, according to various religious traditions)

noun:

• double election (e.g. of the lower and higher chambers) ➜ 同時選挙

noun / ~する noun:

• (doing the) ironing

noun:

• mangrove monitor (Varanus indicus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard from the Western Pacific); mangrove goanna; Western Pacific monitor lizard

noun:

• M-theory ("master theory" that unifies the five superstring theories)

noun:

• schistosomiasis japonica (form of bilharzia caused by the Oriental blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum) - obscure term ➜ 日本住血吸虫症

noun / ~の noun:

• initiative taken by politicians (in the formulation of a policy or bill) (rather than by bureaucrats) - four character idiom

noun:

• imprisonment (for one to three years) - archaism ➜ 五刑

noun:

• sabre-toothed tiger (prehistoric feline, esp. the species Smilodon fatalis); saber-toothed tiger - abbreviation - From English "sabre tiger"

noun:

• captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones

expression / ichidan verb:

• to go wherever one has to go (to get a matter settled, e.g. the court)

noun:

• (the many peaks of a) mountain range

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to loaf (particularly on the job); to idle one's time away; to dawdle

noun:

• life force, blood, and colourless bodily fluids (three elements that constitute an organism according to traditional Chinese medicine)

noun:

• plane tree (esp. the Oriental plane, Platanus orientalis) ➜ プラタナス

noun:

• confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard) - abbreviation ➜ 金鍔焼き
• metal sword guard; polearm - archaism

noun:

• lock of hair (on the side of the head)

noun:

• Habakkuk (book of the Bible)

noun:

• Japanese confectionery store (orig. one of high standing, supplying the imperial court, etc.); Japanese confectionery maker