noun:

• posture in which the legs are firmly planted (in sumo and judo) - Sumo, Martial Arts term

expression / noun:

• bathhouse thievery; stealing someone else's clothes and valuables at a bathhouse

noun:

• national law; laws of a nation
• national rites and ceremonies
• Japanese literature

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• being majestic; with great pomp and circumstance; with an imposing air - four character idiom

noun:

• Special Higher Police (1911-1945); police unit controlling political thought and expression - abbreviation ➜ 特別高等警察

noun:

• traditional women's hair style, with hair worn up and arched back ➜ 島田髷

noun:

• roots of herbs and barks of trees used in Chinese medicine - four character idiom

noun:

• hit-and-run play - Baseball term ➜ ヒットエンドラン
• end run (American football) - Sports term

noun:

• irrelevant and incoherent dialogue; meaningless parlor debate; dialogue at cross purposes - idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• (person of) high rank and office (exalted station); persons in high positions - four character idiom

noun:

• rank and file member of staff; ordinary employee; low-grade employee

noun:

• modan'yaki (okonomiyaki topped with yaki-soba and fried together)

noun:

• Special Higher Police (1911-1945); police unit controlling political thought and expression

noun:

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

noun:

• Sunna (collection of recorded words and actions of the prophet Muhammad); Sunnah - From Arabic "sunna"

noun:

• envelope containing betrothal money and given as part of a betrothal gift

noun:

• open shop system (employment of both unionists and non-unionists) Antonym: ユニオンショップ制

noun:

• primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens)

noun:

• Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces, 1868-1869)

noun:

• exposed skin between top of knee-high socks and hemline of skirt - manga slang

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of next year and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• dialects of Japanese spoken in Western Tottori prefecture and Eastern Shimane prefecture ➜ 出雲弁

noun:

• boa catshark (Scyliorhinus boa, species from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico)

noun:

• door made of one or several wooden planks and no door framework ➜ 桟唐戸

noun:

• Treaty of Shimoda (1855); treaty initiating official relations between Russia and Japan