noun:

• one country, two systems (Chinese policy allowing for the communist mainland and capitalist areas such as Hong Kong)

noun:

• cramschool (for boys and girls who wish to go on to the next stage of education)

noun:

• Gospel of John (book of the Bible)

noun / ~する noun:

• sleeping one's way up (the career ladder)

noun:

• last train (of the day)

noun:

• hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) - four character idiom

noun:

• swellshark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum, species of catshark in the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• Dascyllus (genus of damselfish in the family Pomacentridae)

noun:

• University Entrance Qualification Examination (establishes the equivalent of high-school graduation prior to 2005) ➜ 高校卒業程度認定試験

noun:

• big crunch (theoretical reversal of the big bang resulting in the demise of the universe)

noun:

• Burgess fauna (animal fossils found in the Burgess Shale)

noun:

• Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)

noun:

• Gozu Tenno (deity said to be the Indian god Gavagriva) - Buddhism term

noun:

• alaya-vijnana (store consciousness, consciousness forming the base of all human existence) - Buddhism term

noun:

• cikitsavidya (the ancient Indian study of medicine) ➜ 五明

noun:

• ura-nage (in judo, an over-the-head throw performed by rolling backwards) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• nucleus accumbens (part of the forebrain) ➜ 脳内

noun:

• Tartary (various tribes that historically inhabited the area north of China)

noun:

• stockpile rice (kept by the government to use as emergency provisions); reserved rice

noun:

• northeast Japan (northeast of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line) ➜ 西南日本

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to make a diagonal move (in the game of go)

noun:

• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘

noun:

• ringworm (of the groin); jock itch; tinea cruris ➜ 白癬

noun:

• grey sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon oligolinx, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• Achilles tang (Acanthurus achilles, species of surgeonfish found from the Western Pacific to the East Central Pacific)