noun:

• formal meeting (committee, etc.); session
• this (the aforementioned, our) association (society, organisation)

noun:

• being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence - four character idiom ➜ 首鼠

noun:

• lingering recession; an economy that lingers in the doldrums after bottoming out - four character idiom

expression:

• one's true purpose lying elsewhere; the enemy is at Honnoji [literal] ➜ 本能寺の変

noun:

• ten important Rinzai temples, second in significance to the Kyoto Gozan - obscure term

expression:

• twilight; time for disasters (similar to 'the witching hour' but not midnight) ➜ 逢う魔が時

noun:

• rumbling stomach; noise from gas moving inside the digestive tract; borborygmus; rugitus

noun:

• usu. the drop between collar and bottom hem on kimono, yukata, etc.

noun:

• posthumous name (based the deeds one has performed in their lifetime) ➜ 贈り名

noun:

• thrusting down one's opponent either inside or outside the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• body drop throw (sweeping the opponent's legs and throwing them forward) - Sumo term

noun:

• The Big Apple (nickname for New York City)

noun:

• sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway (Mar. 20, 1995)

noun:

• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• criminal conspiracy (participation in the planning a crime, but not its execution)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pierce something all the way through (with a lance, arrow, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• Arcturus (star in the constellation Boötes); Alpha Bootis - Astronomy term

noun:

• blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)

noun:

• diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint ➜ 陽動作戦

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

noun:

• small cedar - abbreviation - archaism
• thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period) ➜ 小杉原

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language - archaism ➜ ませんでした

noun:

• mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener, i.e. sore, soko, sochira) - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• creeping (i.e. growing along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - Kansai dialect ➜ ない

interjection:

• humph; hmph