noun / ~する noun:

• emotional attachment
• attitude (expressing emotion); meditative pose (e.g. an actor); posing for effect

noun:

• female announcer; woman who makes public announcements (e.g. from an election campaign truck)

noun:

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

noun:

• soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl

noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions ➜ カメコ

noun:

• stock exchange member who facilitates trading by matching buy and sell orders (similar to an NYSE specialist) - Kantō dialect

noun:

• life force, blood, and colourless bodily fluids (three elements that constitute an organism according to traditional Chinese medicine)

noun:

• child from an earlier wife ➜ 後腹【あとばら】
• preceding one's master into death by committing ritual suicide (seppuku) ［さきばら］ ➜ 追い腹

noun:

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

noun:

• opponents having won an equal number of sets (tennis, ping-pong); set count tied - Sports term - From English "set all"

noun:

• school building for housing an imperial photograph and a copy of the Rescript on Education (pre-war Japan)

noun:

• eggs; egg; spawn; roe ［卵］
• hen egg
• (an expert) in the making ［卵］
• beginning; origin; infancy ［卵］

noun:

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

noun:

• president (of an organization); director general; governor (of a central bank); party leader (esp. LDP)

noun / ~する noun:

• accepting a challenge; returning fire; fighting back; putting up a fight; responding to an attack

noun / ~する noun:

• (historical, in China) abdication by an emperor in favor (favour) of a more virtuous successor

adjectival noun:

• explosive
• sudden and dramatic (of an increase in sales, popularity, etc.); explosive; rapid; abrupt; tremendous

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to bear the full brunt of (an attack, criticism, etc.); to face (e.g. questioning) - idiom

noun:

• lucky day
• an unspecified day of the month, used on diplomas, proclamations, etc.

noun:

• chance of going out; opportunity (to succeed)
• musical accompaniment for an actor going on stage

noun / ~する noun:

• reciting (to oneself); repeating (e.g. an order, to confirm one heard it correctly)

noun:

• boiling in an iron pot
• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period)

noun:

• Hayagriva (manifestation of Avalokitesvara with an ornament in the shape of a horse's head) - Buddhism term ➜ 観世音

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sleep in an awkward position and wake with a crick in one's neck

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have one's own way (against all reason); to push through an unreasonable idea