noun:

• free on board (i.e. seller pays to have goods placed on a ship); FOB

noun:

• a number so great it can never be counted to - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "asamkhya"

numeric:

• 10^56 (or 10^64)

noun:

• young master (respectful way of referring to the son of a high-ranking person) - honorific language

~の noun / noun:

• attractive to men; in a style (appearance, look, etc.) that men fall for

noun:

• amorous woman

noun:

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

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sleep in an awkward position and wake with a crick in one's neck

noun:

• (a statesman making) extraordinary efforts to find and employ capable persons (persons of great wisdom) - four character idiom

noun:

• festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle

noun:

• main menu in a restaurant, as opposed to the lunchtime menu

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking metal against stone) - obscure term

noun:

• yellow dog contract (employment contract which forbids the employee to join a labor union)

noun:

• backyard
• background
• room in a store or restaurant not open to customers (often storage room) - colloquialism

noun:

• series of articulated plates attached to the back and sides of a Japanese helmet ➜ 兜

noun:

• something cold (esp. a body)
• something used to cool one's stomach

expression:

• you wish!; that's not going to happen; not a chance - pun on そうは行かぬ - humorous term

expression:

• come!; imperative form of the verb "kuru" ("to come"), expressing a command or strong request ➜ 来る【くる】

noun:

• gathering evidence (e.g. to back a news story); getting the facts; obtaining supporting evidence

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year ➜ 寺納豆

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year ➜ 寺納豆

noun:

• chained library; library where the books are attached to their bookcase with a chain

noun:

• Ama no Ukihashi (the heavenly floating bridge; by which gods are said to descend from the heavens to the earth) - archaism

noun:

• single person who earns enough to live alone but prefers to live rent-free with his or her parents - From English "parasite single"

noun:

• principle holding that any matters left unresolved at the end of one Diet session are not to be carried over to the next

expression:

• don't believe everything you hear; seeing is believing; to have heard of is not to have seen - proverb