noun:

• Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji) ➜ 味噌

noun:

• night jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum); night jasmine; lady of the night; queen of the night

noun:

• Izanami; female deity who gave birth to Japan and the sun, moon, and storm gods ➜ 伊弉諾尊

adjectival noun:

• temporary (of medical care); pallative; dealing only with the symptoms; symptomatic - Medicine term
• superficial

noun:

• executive meeting; meeting of the board of directors

expression:

• "laugh and grow fat" [figurative]; good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile [literal] - from Chi: 打開笑門福自來 - proverb

noun:

• widow's peak; hairline that grows to a point in the middle of the forehead

expression:

• crying over spilt milk; counting the age of one's dead child [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Pseudocarchariidae; family whose only member is a species of mackerel shark known as the crocodile shark

noun:

• Three Alls Strategy; Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War - 三光 is a ref. to a Chinese phrase meaning 'kill all, burn all, loot all'

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to let loose something dangerous; to let loose a tiger in the field [literal] - idiom

noun:

• oyakodon-like dish made with something other than chicken; bowl of rice with cooked meat (esp. beef or pork) and eggs on top - Food term ➜ 親子丼

noun:

• nutmeg (soccer); hitting a ball through the legs (e.g. in tennis) - slang - Sports term

noun:

• nine gates; winning hand consisting of one pung of 1s, one pung of 9s and one tile each of every other number, plus one more suited tile, all in the same suit - Mahjong term - From English "chi"

noun / ~の noun:

• once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to provide facilities; to administer to the convenience of ➜ 便宜を図る

noun:

• removal of blanket government protection of bank deposits; introduction of limits on deposit insurance

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機

noun:

• rank and file; the ranks

noun:

• otitis externa; inflammation of the outer ear

noun:

• coolness of autumn; first cold air of autumn

noun:

• in-car announcement (on a train); PA system on a train

noun:

• non-jōyō kanji; kanji outside the common-use kanji list ➜ 常用漢字

ichidan verb:

• to think constantly about; to dwell on

noun:

• hospital department; department in the field of medical care