noun / ~する noun:

• doing something separately (from the group); going off on one's own Antonym: 団体行動

noun:

• deadline (esp. in the entertainment industry); fixed ending time - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• buying by the carton (e.g. cigarettes, trading cards, etc.) - colloquialism

expression:

• May the Force be with you (Star Wars) ➜ フォースと共にあらんことを【フォースとともにあらんことを】

expression:

• May the Force be with you (Star Wars) ➜ フォースと共にあれ【フォースとともにあれ】

noun:

• merchant class culture that flourished in Edo during the Bunka-Bunsei period ➜ 文化文政時代

expression:

• being ready to drink sake by the keg; drinking like a fish

noun:

• nowcast; prediction of the very near future (esp. one hour weather forecast)

expression / noun:

• not getting with the times; being unaware of how things are changing - idiom

noun:

• swatting; deceiving the police into sending armed officers to a particular address

noun:

• regulation baseball (as opposed to the variety played with a rubber ball) ➜ 軟式野球

noun:

• large room
• green room; waiting room for performers when off stage

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• junior actor; actor of small parts

noun:

• large hospital room (for several patients); hospital ward

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to take on; to undertake; to accept; to take charge of; to assume responsibility for
• to take over; to inherit
• to guarantee; to vouch for
• to contract (a disease)

noun:

• series; sequence; system; succession
• keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings

~の noun:

• affiliated; subsidiary

noun:

• Fifth Generation Computer System; FGCS - IT term

noun:

• office system where employees are free to change desk ➜ フリーアドレス

noun / ~する noun:

• entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining
• immediately agreeing with someone else; pandering ➜ 迎合【げいごう】

noun:

• natural features; scenery
• things particular to a certain region or season; characteristic scenery and customs; scenes and manners

adverb / ~と adverb:

• crunching; chewing or crushing something hard; scraping; scratching - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• hard and crunchy - onomatopoeia
• very skinny; emaciated; all skin and bones - onomatopoeia

noun:

• fish, meat, and vegetables stewed in a thick, sweet sauce of soy sauce, sugar and mirin - Food term

noun:

• abandoning artifice and just being oneself; doing nothing and taking things as they come - four character idiom
• unconditioned nature; unconditioned spontaneity - Buddhism term

noun:

• feeling apprehensive; feeling (looking) lone and helpless; being down-and-out (ruined); helplessness of those in reduced circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

• San-in region of western Honshu (incl. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures)

noun:

• special leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer and decorated with stones and jewels - obscure term

noun:

• special leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer and decorated with stones and jewels - obscure term ➜ 石帯