noun:

• PRISM; mass electronic surveillance program operated by the United States National Security Agency

noun:

• occasional crime; crime instigated by external circumstances - obscure term

noun:

• telephone appointment; arranging meetings and appointments in advance by phone - abbreviation
• cold-calling to get potential customers to agree to meet a salesman; carrying out market surveys by phone

noun:

• monk; priest, particularly a high-ranking Zen monk honored by the imperial court - honorific language

noun:

• 51% attack (e.g. on a cryptocurrency); disruptive attack on a blockchain by majority holders of computing power

noun / ~する noun:

• pushing though; bulldozing; doing something by force; arm twisting

noun:

• women's language; word used by women

noun:

• class A river; specified waterways of special importance protected by the government

noun:

• famous sword; sword blade by Masamune
• sake; Japanese rice wine; brand of sake from Nada region during Tenpō era (1830-1844) - colloquialism

noun:

• per-connection; by connection - IT term

noun:

• briefing a patient about a disease; treating a patient by talking to them - From German "Mundtherapie"

noun:

• Dasein; philosophical concept introduced by Heidegger ➜ 現存在【げんそんざい】

adverb:

• from where one sits; while sitting by

noun:

• health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster - four character idiom

noun:

• kyogen interlude; short scene during a noh play, performed by a kyogen actor (usu. explaining the play) ➜ 間狂言

noun:

• type of dyeing method or pattern; silk printed by the Yuzen process - abbreviation ➜ 友禅染

noun:

• the respective (relative) strength of political parties; distribution of the number of parliamentary seats held by each of the political parties - four character idiom

noun:

• traditional Japanese calendar with pictures; traditional Japanese calendar expressed with pictures for use by illiterates ➜ 盲暦

noun:

• naked bud (of a plant); bud unprotected by bud scales

noun:

• windcrust; crust formed on snow by strong wind

noun:

• man who drives a woman around for free; man used by a woman for his car - slang

godan ~く verb:

• to be underwater from the neck down; to collect shells, seaweed, etc. by diving under the water - archaism
• to force something under the surface of the water

noun:

• artifact spirit; in folk belief, long-lived objects (household objects, living beings, nature, etc.) become inhabited by a spirit

noun:

• ABCD line; embargoes against Japan by America, Britain, China, and the Dutch starting in 1940

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom