noun:

• stable period (with ref. to pregnancy, typically from 4th month when the placenta is fully formed, morning sickness usually goes away and risk of miscarriage decreases)

noun:

• mythical shark-like demon sea monster with barbed tail fin, said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan; Beach Stroker

noun:

• military administration; military government ➜ 民政
• government affairs relating to the military

noun:

• height of summer; high summer; hottest part of the summer

noun:

• the same room; sharing a room; sharers of a room

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick it out; to see it to the end

noun / ~する noun:

• success in life; advancement in life; rising in the world - four character idiom

noun:

• teacher - colloquialism - derogatory term
• previous ruler; previous lord; lord of the previous generation

godan ~む verb:

• to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be brief and to the point; to be succinct

noun:

• protection law; shield law; law for the protection of something ➜ オゾン層保護法【オゾンそうほごほう】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to balance the accounts
• to make consistent; to make coherent

noun:

• fate; destiny
• connection; tie; bond; origin
• pretext; justification
• hetu and prataya (direct causes and indirect conditions, which underlie the actions of all things) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• rendezvous; meeting; assignation

noun:

• area where guests gather before the start of a tea ceremony
• waiting room - abbreviation ➜ 待合室【まちあいしつ】
• meeting place for assignations, drinking, etc. - archaism - abbreviation ➜ 待合茶屋【まちあいぢゃや】

noun:

• retort; sealed plastic pouch typically containing ready-made sauce or stew; boil-in-the-bag - Food term
• retort; glass vessel used for distillation (now largely obs.) - Chemistry term - From Dutch

noun / adjectival noun:

• idle and incompetent; accomplishing nothing significant nor being capable of doing so; lacking the talent to do anything but idle away one's time - four character idiom

noun:

• collective goods (i.e. goods or services such as parks, highways, etc. which could be supplied privately, but are usually provided by the government) ➜ 公共財

noun:

• Canopic jar; Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)

noun:

• armor, helmet & shield (armour) - obscure term
• kakurei, kakuun & kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• spreading baseless information to benefit one's own position in the stock market (etc.) - From English "position talk"
• statement that is beneficial to oneself

noun:

• time - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "samaya"
• meeting; coming together - Buddhism term
• equality, warning, or riddance of hindrances (esp. in esoteric Buddhism as vows of the buddhas and bodhisattvas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

noun:

• axe murder incident (Aug. 18, 1976); poplar tree incident; killing of two American army officers by North Korean soldiers in the DMZ

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

adjective:

• hot; warm; sultry; heated Antonym: 寒い
• passionate; impassioned; burning (desire, etc.)
• on everybody's mind; on the radar; du jour; interested (gaze, etc.)