noun:

• health care (e.g. for the aged); health management; health maintenance

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to attract notice; to catch the eye; to stand out

noun:

• navicular bone (largest wrist bone on the thumb side); scaphoid (bone)

~する verb (spec.):

• to exile; to banish
• to revise the wording of a phrase

noun:

• chief justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong

noun:

• self-government; autonomous government; devolved government (e.g. in the UK)

expression:

• at the same time as; while; as well as (multiple roles)

adverb:

• hence; from now; from the present moment; from this time forward ➜ 今まで

noun:

• inside story; the real story (behind something); story not generally known - abbreviation ➜ 裏話【うらばなし】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to overstep the mark; to go too far; to overdo it ➜ 度を越す

expression:

• in preparation (for); in case (of); in the lead-up (to) ➜ 備える【そなえる】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to consider; to eye the possibility (of); to bring into view

expression:

• as one wishes; the way one wants; to one's satisfaction ➜ 思い通り

noun:

• transformation of the population of Japan into idiots (because of television)

expression / noun:

• the person in question
• prominent figure; distinguished person - as その人あり

expression / pronoun:

• that person

~の noun / adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• side; edge; beside; besides; nearby ➜ 傍らに

adverbial noun:

• while (doing); in addition to; at the same time - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• shot; charge; explosion
• blow; punch
• home run - Baseball term

noun / adverbial noun:

• try; attempt

noun:

• win on the first go-around after calling riichi - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun:

• riding together; sharing a car (taxi, etc.)
• doing in collaboration
• backing of the same candidate by different political parties

noun / ~の noun:

• boning (fish or meat); deboning
• watering down (a plan, bill, etc.); dilution; emasculation
• taking the backbone out of; weakening

noun:

• texture (cloth, fabric, paper)
• market tone; undertone
• balance between the position of white and black stones (in go) ➜ 囲碁

noun:

• divide; parting; separating; distribution
• carrying two bundles tied together over one's shoulder
• hair parted in the middle - abbreviation ➜ 振り分け髪

noun:

• group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants)
• non-human - Buddhism term

noun:

• dish of vegetables, konnyaku, etc. simmered in soy sauce and water until the liquid is almost gone - Food term

noun:

• large cloth sack
• baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)

noun:

• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do, i.e. the Dorian mode) ➜ 呂旋