expression:

• someone who was just crying quickly cheers up and smiles; a child's emotions change easily

noun:

• young woman who takes walks, etc. with male clients for a charge - From English "stick girl"

noun:

• ghost runner; placeholder used when fewer than 9 members are present on a team - Baseball term

noun:

• sexual activity (at a brothel) involving body lotion and an air mattress - From English "mat play"

noun:

• karuta game in which players race to grab cards associated with a given reading ➜ カルタ・読み札・取り札

noun:

• last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th) - Buddhism term ➜ 弔い上げ

noun:

• regular column or opinion piece written by a different person each time - From English "relay column"

expression / noun:

• person who has lost something they used to rely on; a monkey fallen from the tree [literal] - idiom

noun:

• singularity (climate); day in the calendar when a particular weather phenomenon is statistically likely to occur

noun:

• dragon's den
• auspicious place for a temple, town, etc. to be built (feng shui)

noun:

• sport that requires a strong willpower and hunger for success (esp. boxing) - From English "hungry sports"

noun:

• Nephila clavata (an Oriental species of golden orb-weaving spider)
• Argiope amoena (an Oriental species of orb-weaving spider) - often mistakenly called ジョロウグモ ➜ 黄金蜘蛛
• wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi) - often mistakenly called ジョロウグモ ➜ 長黄金蜘蛛

noun:

• extraordinary Diet session; extraordinary session of the Diet; session of the Diet convoked by the Cabinet by need or house request

noun:

• extraordinary Diet session; extraordinary session of the Diet; session of the Diet convoked by the Cabinet by need or house request ➜ 臨時国会

expression:

• Y adding up to Z; Y making up Z; Y constituting Z; Z consisting of Y; Z composed of Y; Z containing Y - for the pattern Y からなる Z

noun:

• cheese ➜ 乾酪
• tee (piping); T-joint

interjection:

• cheese (expression used when taking a photograph) - usu. as はい、チーズ

adverb:

• quite; really; very; extremely
• nothing; not a bit; not at all - with neg. verb

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to print
• to color or pattern fabric using a wooden mold

noun:

• combination; assortment; set
• matching (in a contest); pairing
• combination - Mathematics term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stop by; to drop in for a short visit

noun:

• face
• surface
• mask (esp. a noh or kyogen mask) ［おもて・もて］

noun:

• large building; building with a long roof

suffix / counter:

• counter for buildings, apartments, etc.

noun:

• debt; liabilities; obligation to a person or party (usu. legal or contractual) Antonym: 債権

noun:

• rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller)

noun:

• Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character)