noun:

• legal liquidation; court-mediated winding-up of a company ➜ 私的整理

noun:

• butoh; style of contemporary Japanese dance featuring dancers in white paint

noun:

• being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom

noun:

• whole work; all of the works

noun:

• storefront; front of a store

noun:

• physical law; laws of physics

noun:

• Artemisia; genus of daisies ➜ ヨモギ属

proper noun:

• faithful dog Hachiko; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935)

noun:

• trivia; bits of knowledge

noun:

• the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease); four big pollution diseases of Japan ➜ 水俣病・第二水俣病・四日市ぜんそく・イタイイタイ病

noun:

• antiques; old works of art

noun:

• basic overview; basic concept

noun:

• last summer; summer of last year

noun:

• arriving at the final stop (of a bus, train, etc.); reaching the end of the line

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stimulate interest in; to raise awareness of ➜ 関心が高まる

noun:

• high water; abundance of water
• hosui (cultivar of nashi, Pyrus pyrifolia) ➜ 梨【なし】

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom ➜ 前門の虎後門の狼【ぜんもんのとらこうもんのおおかみ】

noun:

• double-sided wait (for one's last tile); wait for either of two different tiles to complete a chow which will finish one's hand - Mahjong term ➜ 両面待ち【リャンメンまち】

noun / ~の noun:

• in the mountains; within the grounds of a temple

noun:

• combating organized crime; elimination of criminal gangs - abbreviation ➜ 暴力団排除

noun:

• ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities
• ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami

noun:

• leaf apex; tip of the leaf

godan ~ぬ verb:

• to freeze to death; to die of cold - sensitive

noun / ~の noun:

• every preparation (arrangement); all sorts of preparations - four character idiom

noun:

• Creodonta; extinct order of mammals