noun:

• Benelux; Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg)

noun:

• whitespotted bambooshark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum); white-spotted catshark (species from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• Dīpankara Buddha; Dipankara (the lamp bearer) - Buddhism term

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to drive into (e.g. a nail into a board); to hit into (e.g. a home run into the stands)
• to throw into (e.g. jail)
• to drum into (someone) (an idea, skill, etc.); to hammer into; to drill into

expression:

• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope

noun / ~する noun:

• preaching down; breaking down somebody's false beliefs through confrontation (in order to convert them to the right faith) - Buddhism term

noun:

• caddisfly; caddis fly (any moth-like insect of the order Trichoptera)

noun:

• manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour) ➜ 漫画

noun:

• kyogen interlude; short scene during a noh play, performed by a kyogen actor (usu. explaining the play) ➜ 本狂言

expression:

• remain standing; keeping standing (all the way)

noun:

• garden eel; conger eel (esp. the common Japanese conger, Conger myriaster)

noun:

• bacteremia; bacteraemia (presence of bacteria in the blood)

noun:

• layering; placing a large amount of orders and cancelling before they are executed (with the intent of manipulating the market) - Finance term

noun:

• menu; list of meals (e.g. for the week) ➜ メニュー

noun:

• civet; stew of a game animal, red wine and various alliums (often thickened with the animal's blood) - Food term - From French

noun / ~する noun:

• rise and fall; frequent fluctuations (of the market price) - four character idiom

noun:

• Twenty-Five Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-five Chinese historical books (the Twenty-Four Histories and the New History of Yuan) ➜ 二十四史

noun:

• krill; euphasiid (any species in the family Euphausiacea)

noun:

• modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)

noun:

• divine mirror; sacred mirror (one of the three sacred treasures)

noun:

• seamanship; (the art of) navigation

expression:

• one never knows (what will happen); there's no telling (what the future holds)

noun:

• Roche limit; Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)

noun:

• cotyledon; seed leaf (i.e. the first leaves to emerge when a seed sprouts)

noun:

• Buddhist missionary, esp. in Jodo, Pure Land, etc. sects; Buddhist minister (in the West)