noun:

• All-Campus Joint Struggle League; student group active at universities throughout Japan between 1968 and 1969 - abbreviation ➜ 全学共闘会議

noun:

• loco moco; Hawaiian dish, trad. white rice topped with hamburger patty, fried egg and brown gravy - Food term

noun:

• sexual activity (at a brothel) involving body lotion and an air mattress - From English "mat play"

noun:

• uppercase letter; capital letter ［おおもじ］ ➜ 小文字
• large character; large writing
• the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big" ［だいもんじ］
• huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on 16 Aug each year ［だいもんじ］

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to reach ➜ 追いつく
• to be compensated; to make up for one's losses ➜ 追いつく

noun / ~する noun:

• running errands; going on errands
• (transaction of) business; going about one's business
• doing one's business (i.e. at the toilet); going to the washroom
• purveying; purveyor - esp. 用達 ➜ 御用達

noun:

• division of the night (from approx. 7 pm to 5 am) into five 2-hour periods - archaism
• the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am)

expression:

• look at both sides of the thing; look at both sides of the shield [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to be the subject of attention; to call people's attention; to be the rage; to be of interest

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fit the mold; to fit the mould; to be standard; to be customary; to be unoriginal; to be stale ➜ 型に嵌める【かたにはめる】

noun:

• side-foot (e.g. in soccer); kick with the side of the foot - From English "sidekick"
• side kick (e.g. in martial arts)
• sidekick; companion

expression:

• taking the opportunity to do something; doing something incidentally; doing something while (you) are at it; doing something on the way; while I'm at it - idiom

ichidan verb:

• to drift; to blow together ➜ 吹き集める
• to have the wind start to blow; to have the wind spring up

noun:

• lesson learned from someone's else mistake; object lesson; food for thought; stones from other mountains (can be used to polish one's own gems) [literal] - idiom ➜ 他山の石以て玉を攻むべし

adjective:

• poor; needy
• lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty; skimpy; slight; inadequate

noun:

• light motor vehicle (up to 660cc and 64bhp); k-car; kei car ➜ 軽カー

noun:

• shabu-shabu; thinly sliced meat boiled quickly with vegetables, and dipped in sauce - from the sound of this dish being prepared - onomatopoeia - Food term

noun / ~の noun:

• Siberia

noun:

• cake made with layers of sweet bean paste and sponge cake

noun:

• nut (as in nut and bolt)
• natural unit of information content; nat

noun:

• fragment; scrap; cut end; cut-off piece; chip; odds and ends

adverb / ~と adverb:

• verdant; fresh and green; bright green; lush - often 青々として

noun:

• Special Higher Police (1911-1945); police unit controlling political thought and expression - abbreviation ➜ 特別高等警察

godan ~る verb:

• to fall and pile up (e.g. snow); to lie thick

noun:

• triple jump; hop, step and jump ➜ 三段跳び【さんだんとび】

expression:

• It's good to have a girl first and then a boy