noun:

• Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

noun:

• axe murder incident (Aug. 18, 1976); poplar tree incident; killing of two American army officers by North Korean soldiers in the DMZ

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

adjective:

• hot; warm; sultry; heated Antonym: 寒い
• passionate; impassioned; burning (desire, etc.)
• on everybody's mind; on the radar; du jour; interested (gaze, etc.)

adverb:

• too; also; likewise; either ➜ 矢っ張り【やっぱり】
• still; as before ➜ 矢っ張り【やっぱり】
• even so; either way; nonetheless; in any event; all the same ➜ 矢っ張り【やっぱり】
• as expected ➜ 矢っ張り【やっぱり】

noun:

• Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures
• Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)

adverb / expression:

• using anything one can lay one's hands on; haphazardly; on the rebound; at random; indiscriminately

noun:

• meeting place; seats for the public
• restaurant dinner tray; set of dishes served on an individual tray for entertaining guests; banquet - abbreviation ➜ 会席料理

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• perversity; perverse person; contrary person; contrarian

noun:

• antagonistic demon in Japanese folklore
• demon under the feet of temple guardian statues

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud

noun / ~する noun:

• turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering; musing; rumination (about a subject)

expression:

• necessity is the mother of invention; there is always some way out of a difficulty if you really look for one - proverb

noun:

• girl who has led a sheltered life; pet daughter; naive girl; ingénue
• wooden block puzzle; Daughter in the Box; Klotski

noun:

• immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); Taoist immortal; supernatural being ➜ 仙人
• (in Japan) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C) ➜ 十二律・無射

noun:

• official post; regular post; permanent office
• principal post (as opposed to secondary post)

pronoun:

• I (of someone in government or the civil service)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to live on air
• to derive nourishment from an elemental portion of mist or fog (the goal of a mountain ascetic) ➜ 仙人

noun:

• itai-itai disease; mass cadmium poisoning in Toyama Prefecture starting in the 1910's caused by industrial waste ➜ 痛い

conjunction:

• that being the case; therefore; so
• well then, moving on to another topic...
• (expressing surprise) ...on earth? ［されば］

interjection:

• that's right ［されば］

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term

noun:

• any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)

noun:

• township-neighbourhood system (redefining the province-district-neighbourhood system, establishing 50-home townships of 2-3 neighbourhoods each; 715-740 CE) ➜ 国郡里制

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fly (with great force); to blast (e.g. into the sky)
• to lack common sense
• to be extremely surprised (by) - colloquialism

noun:

• seal; stamp - archaism
• depressing the string of a zither with one's left hand
• (in archery) left hand ➜ 引き手【ひきで】
• obstinacy; stubbornness

noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language) ➜ 小新聞
• major newspaper

noun:

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