noun:

• Islamic State (of Iraq and the Levant); IS; ISIL

noun:

• biopower; Foucault's term for the regulation by modern states of their subjects

~の noun:

• sultry; muggy; steamy; sticky; hot and humid ➜ むしあつい

noun:

• 6th month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• Distylium racemosum (evergreen tree of the winter-hazel genus)

expression:

• following the desires of one's own heart without transgressing what is right - from the Analects of Confucius - proverb

expression:

• apologies for writing to you without either of us following the other - abbr. of ＦＦ外から失礼します; used on twitter - slang

expression:

• apologies for writing to you without either of us following the other - abbr. of ＦＦ外から失礼します; used on twitter - slang

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• fluently (speaking a foreign language) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• incessantly (speaking); glibly; garrulously; volubly - onomatopoeia
• one after the other (flipping through pages) - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun / adverb / ~する noun:

• thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy; weak - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• monk's "begging"; religious mendicancy; asking for alms
• going with one's bowl to the meditation hall at mealtime (in a Zen temple) - Buddhism term

noun:

• in-home separation; quasi-divorce; marriage that has broken down but where the wife and husband still live together without getting a divorce

noun:

• food (on a table) (esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant) ➜ 膳
• cook; chef; person who prepares food

noun / ~の noun / ~する noun:

• disguising oneself as a man; dressing as a man (for a woman); male clothing ➜ 女装【じょそう】

noun:

• material before the opening credits in a film, anime, etc. - From English "avant title"

noun:

• plastic toy (e.g. fish) suspended in a sealed glass tube filled with fluid; toy for use in the bath - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• being on stage when the curtain opens

noun:

• wooden floor; wooden-floored room
• thinly-sliced food grilled on a cedar board ➜ 板焼き

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to take something into ...; to bring in; to carry in
• to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring (a proposal); to commence negotiations ➜ 尻を持ち込む【しりをもちこむ】
• to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)

expression / ichidan verb:

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

noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time)

noun / ~する noun:

• execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; practice; action; implementation; fulfillment; realization

noun:

• mama; mamma; mom; mommy; mum; mummy; mother
• female proprietress (of a bar, etc.)

noun:

• native Japanese reading of a Chinese character ➜ 音【おん】

noun / suffix:

• precept; lesson; one's teachings ➜ 処世訓【しょせいくん】

noun:

• bun
• van (caravan)
• bang ➜ ビッグバン

noun / ~する noun:

• ban (esp. of a player from an online game)

noun:

• bed; bedding
• sickbed
• alcove - abbreviation ➜ 床の間
• riverbed
• seedbed
• straw "core" of a tatami mat
• floor ➜ 床【ゆか】

noun:

• face; honour; honor - From Chinese "miànzi"
• meld - Mahjong term
• lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game)

noun:

• basement of a department store (where foodstuffs are usually sold) - colloquialism - abbreviation