adjective:

• modern; trendy; hip; in; up-to-date - 1980s slang - slang - From English "nowy" ➜ ナウ

noun:

• people devoted to inline rollerskating

noun:

• right to dissolve (e.g. the Diet)

noun:

• person subject to a conservatorship or curatorship

noun:

• binding legal effectiveness as to third parties

adjective:

• difficult to solve; intractable (problem)

expression / adjective:

• neither fish nor fowl; hard-to-predict - idiom

noun:

• telephone call made to get an appointment

expression / ichidan verb:

• to punish (e.g. a child, etc.)

godan ~つ verb:

• to stand towering over the surrounds

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to face the situation

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to beat fast (e.g. the heart)

godan ~る verb:

• to release (e.g. a film)

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to roll around in the grass or mud

noun:

• writing style used to write the rankings - Sumo term

noun:

• writing style used to write the rankings - Sumo term

noun:

• conservative calligraphy style used to write rankings - Sumo term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to demonstrate (e.g. in the streets)

godan ~く verb:

• to go through all sorts of hardships

ichidan verb:

• to overdo something (speed, exertion, etc.)

noun:

• resident audit request to local government authority

noun:

• dealing a hard (heavy, crushing) blow (to) - four character idiom

noun:

• ministerial authority to grant permits and approvals - four character idiom

noun:

• slavish submission to power; sycophancy; flunkeyism; toadyism - four character idiom

noun:

• argument as to (about) the authenticity (of...) - four character idiom