expression / noun:

• difficult person; good-for-nothing; pain in the ass (arse)

noun:

• high-ranking staff member in the Office of Court Ladies (ritsuryo system) - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be in a (plaster) cast ➜ 嵌める【はめる】

noun:

• female weaver
• Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae - Astronomy term ➜ 織女星【しょくじょせい】

noun:

• Liujiang man; one of the earliest modern humans found in East Asia

noun:

• Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (in Japan); SCAP

noun:

• cigarette lighter socket (in an automobile)

noun:

• techno-park; technopark; area of high-tech companies, esp. in information technology

expression:

• idea that all things in the universe lack their own unchangeable substances - Buddhism term ➜ 四法印【しほういん】

noun:

• ball not bouncing (e.g. in a catch) - Baseball term - From English "no bound"

noun:

• deadline (esp. in the entertainment industry); fixed ending time - colloquialism

expression:

• ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist

expression / noun:

• couple who are more than friends, but not in an intimate relationship

noun / ~する noun:

• preservation of obsolete machinery in a functional condition (e.g. train engines) ➜ 静態保存

noun:

• voice chat (e.g. in a video game)

noun:

• merchant class culture that flourished in Edo during the Bunka-Bunsei period ➜ 文化文政時代

noun:

• verbal command (in dog training) ➜ 視符
• sound part of a semasio-phonetic kanji ➜ 形声文字【けいせいもじ】

noun:

• large regional newspaper (usu. sold in more than one prefecture)

noun:

• baby colic (in infants around 3 months old)

noun:

• sun symbol (e.g. in a weather forecast)

noun:

• shitpost; worthless post or thread in an Internet forum - slang ➜ スレ

noun:

• peak of a financial bubble (esp. in Japan around 1990)

noun / ~する noun:

• seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles

noun:

• the three main gods: Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto; three precious children - Shintō term

noun:

• all sorts of birds; hundreds (and thousands) of birds - archaism
• plover ➜ 千鳥
• Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale ➜ 鶯