noun:

• Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))

noun:

• Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

noun:

• dui (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: swamp, west)

noun:

• leg band (e.g. on bird or hospital patient); ring; anklet

noun:

• fornix (of the brain); fornix cerebri

noun:

• Kakei era (of the Northern Court) (1387.8.23-1389.2.9); Kakyō era

noun:

• senior high school (in the PRC or ROC)

noun:

• criticality accident (in the nuclear industry)

noun:

• Ribes (genus of flowering plants, including the edible currants)

noun:

• Assumption (of the body and soul of Mary into heaven) ➜ 聖母マリア

noun:

• soft spot (in the skull of an infant); fontanelle; fontanel
• gates of Hades; entrance to the underworld ➜ 黄泉

noun:

• iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); ditto mark

noun:

• "grain in ear" solar term (approx. June 6, when awns begin to grow on grains) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• Malta fever (variety of brucellosis caused by the bacteria Brucella melitensis)

noun:

• Maitreya (buddha appearing 5.67 billion years after the death of Gautama) - Buddhism term ➜ 弥勒・前仏

noun:

• stop (on a train's route) ➜ 急行停車駅

noun:

• threadfin (any fish of family Polynemidae, esp. the striped threadfin, Polydactylus plebeius)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to trace back to (the origins of something)

noun:

• guide melody (karaoke melody to help the singer hold the tune)

noun:

• iaido (art of drawing the Japanese sword)

noun:

• zebra bullhead shark (Heterodontus zebra, found in the Western Pacific)

noun:

• blackback butterflyfish (Chaetodon melannotus, species found in the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• Loxodon (genus containing the sliteye shark as its only member in the family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• thus I hear (quote from the sutras); these ears have heard - four character idiom

noun:

• Tōhoku harvest divination event (14th night of the New Year) ➜ 年占