noun:

• Vietcong; Viet Cong (communist guerrilla soldiers who fought in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War)

noun / ~する noun:

• treat; banquet; feast; entertainment; goodies - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ ごちそう

interjection:

• thank you (for the meal); that was a delicious meal - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ ごちそうさま

noun:

• Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003)

noun:

• Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003) ➜ 有志連合

noun:

• main menu in a restaurant, as opposed to the lunchtime menu

expression:

• not exactly correct, but pretty close to it; not far off the mark

noun / ~する noun:

• going along with something; following the crowd
• treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner

noun:

• cardueline finch (any finch of subfamily Carduelinae, esp. the Eurasian siskin, Carduelis spinus)

noun:

• parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)

noun:

• people who study or work while listening to the radio (or watching television, etc.)

noun:

• agreement used to prevent unauthorized or faked divorce by couples in Japan in the future

noun:

• yellow dog contract (employment contract which forbids the employee to join a labor union)

godan ~る verb:

• to fabricate (stories) (based on alleged behaviour of the Asahi newspaper); to make up - slang - humorous term

noun:

• Far Eastern brook lamprey (Lethenteron reissneri); sand lamprey (species found in the Northwest Pacific)

noun:

• soot-colored bamboo (coloured)
• bamboo duster (with the leaves still attached at one end) ➜ すす払い

noun:

• Lord (title of respect for nobility, etc.) - archaism - honorific language
• Sukune (third highest of the eight hereditary titles) ➜ 八色の姓

noun:

• territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.)
• countryside - archaism

noun:

• Imperial Declaration of Humanity (wherein Hirohito renounced the imperial claim to divinity; Jan. 1, 1946)

noun:

• Shuhari; three stages of learning mastery: the fundamentals, breaking with tradition, parting with traditional wisdom - Martial Arts term

noun:

• headliner
• latter half of a formal tea ceremony (in which the tea is actually consumed) ➜ 初座

noun:

• single-tiered gate with eight secondary pillars supporting the four main central pillars

expression / ichidan verb:

• to able to enter the New Year (i.e. have work finished, debts paid, etc.)

noun:

• lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)

noun:

• Achilles argument (i.e. Achilles and the tortoise; one of Zeno's paradoxes) ➜ ゼノンの逆説

noun:

• beriberi ➜ 脚気【かっけ】

noun / ~する noun / ~と adverb:

• tearing off something stuck on the surface of something else (e.g. duct tape) - onomatopoeia