noun:

• sell-through video; video for sale (as opposed to rental) - From English "sell video"

noun:

• measured rate system; cost charged by quantity; pay-as-you-go; pay-for-use

noun:

• passing the physical examination as a Grade One conscript (in the former Japanese military)

noun:

• instant noodles (sold in a soft plastic packaging, as opposed to cup noodles) ➜ カップ麺

noun:

• Edo-period realm of the Japanese (as opposed to the Ainu) in southern Hokkaido ➜ 蝦夷地【えぞち】

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• loss of momentum or follow-through as a result of impact; getting knocked aside - Sports term

noun:

• anomaly; angular distance of a planet from its perihelion as seen from the sun - Astronomy term

noun:

• dried boiled rice used mainly as provisions of samurai troops and travelers (travellers)

noun:

• dried citrus peel (esp. of a satsuma mandarin) used as seasoning and in traditional Chinese medicine; chenpi ➜ 蜜柑

noun:

• form of magic or divination (e.g. animating objects to act as the sorcerer's agent)

noun:

• not being obsessed with something very long (just as clouds and haze pass swiftly before one's eyes) - four character idiom

noun:

• unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items

expression:

• obviously; as we all know; needless to say; of course; it goes without saying

noun:

• one country, two systems (Chinese policy allowing for the communist mainland and capitalist areas such as Hong Kong)

noun:

• Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) - colloquialism ➜ 穂咲の総藻
• aquatic plants such as hornwort that are commonly used in goldfish tanks, etc.

noun:

• Jintan (brand-name breath mint marketed as having various medicinal properties); refreshing candies resembling BBs or metallic dragees

noun:

• all terminals; winning hand consisting of only ones and nines as pungs or kongs plus a pair - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• dyeing one's hair oneself (as opposed to having it done by a hairdresser) - From English "self colour"

noun:

• apartment too small to be legally rented out, and hence let as office or storage space

noun:

• miyairigai (Oncomelania hupensis nosophora); freshwater snail that acts as an intermediate host of the Japanese blood fluke ➜ 片山貝

noun:

• flesh
• meat
• the physical body (as opposed to the spirit) ［にく］
• thickness ［にく］
• ink pad ［にく］ ➜ 印肉

noun:

• particle; postpositional word in Japanese grammar that functions as an auxiliary to a main word - Linguistics term

noun:

• buffer (full) error (i.e. space cannot be reserved as it is full)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn out just as one wished; to play into the hands (of)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)