noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

noun:

• off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink

noun / ~する noun:

• staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first
• constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

noun:

• fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes

noun:

• normalization; offering people with disabilities the same conditions as other people

noun:

• pharmacognosy; the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources

noun:

• Theaceae; family of flowering plants comprising the camellias and other shrubs and trees

noun:

• inconsistently, horribly drawn animated film or cartoon; animated cartoon episode of lower picture quality than other episodes in the same series - slang

noun:

• buddy system; the idea that divers always dive with a buddy to assist each other

noun:

• normalization; offering people with disabilities the same conditions as other people ➜ ノーマライゼーション・常態化

noun:

• nine gates; winning hand consisting of one pung of 1s, one pung of 9s and one tile each of every other number, plus one more suited tile, all in the same suit - Mahjong term - From English "chi"

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be profoundly compatible; to be inseparable; to be so close as to reveal to each other the bottom of one's heart

expression:

• burying one's head in the sand (while leaving other parts of one's body exposed); exposing one's weak point while attempting to protect oneself; hiding one's head without hiding one's bottom [literal] - idiom

noun:

• overwhelming majority (number of parliamentary seats required in order for the ruling coalition to chair all standing committees and pass bills without the support of other parties)

noun:

• middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); junior high school ➜ 高等部

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term

noun:

• elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school

noun:

• ceremony for appointing officials other than ministers (from the Heian period)

noun:

• super spreader (carrier of a viral disease who spreads the virus to a large number of other people)

noun:

• senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters) - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles) ➜ 七曜
• Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine ➜ 真鰯

noun:

• government property
• taxes and other fees paid by the provinces to the governement (ritsuryo system) ［かんもつ］

noun:

• all worldly phenomena; meritorious acts leading to enlightenment - Buddhism term
• (Jodo school) all practices other than recitation of the nembutsu prayer