noun:

• fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)

noun:

• warfare in which soldiers fling themselves at the enemy; hand-to hand combat

noun:

• geisha - Kansai dialect ➜ 芸者・芸妓
• kabuki actor (esp. a young actor) - archaism ➜ 若衆【わかしゅ】
• someone accomplished in the arts - archaism

noun:

• control tower; conning tower
• leader; commander; person calling the shots
• playmaker; game maker - Sports term

godan ~む verb:

• to shut out one's opponents; to stop the other side from scoring

noun:

• one's dark days; the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity - four character idiom

noun:

• normalization; offering people with disabilities the same conditions as other people

expression:

• quick to take a hint; very responsive; quick on the uptake ➜ ツーカー

noun:

• Three Alls Strategy; Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War - 三光 is a ref. to a Chinese phrase meaning 'kill all, burn all, loot all'

noun:

• collar; area around the collar
• counterclockwise (when seated in a circle); anti-clockwise

expression:

• the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat - proverb ➜ 三十六計

expression:

• we meet only to part; meeting is the first step to parting [literal] - proverb

expression / noun:

• perseverance prevails; three years on a (cold) stone (will make the stone warm) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• arrow wheel (decorative windmill on the pole on which carp streamers are raised) ➜ 鯉幟

noun:

• tathagatagarbha (buddha-womb, the potential within all living things to become a buddha) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)

noun:

• Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries) ➜ 日本人町

noun / ~の noun:

• Cambrian system (i.e. rock layer deposited during the Cambrian period)

noun:

• agency (government department between a ministry and a bureau under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• ground wave; terrestrial broadcast signal (i.e. not satellite)

~の noun:

• terrestrial; over-the-air

noun:

• occupation period (e.g. post-WWII period during which the Allies occupied Japan)

noun / ~の noun:

• desire for improvement (in social standing, etc.); ambition to rise in the world

noun:

• mouth shaped like a kana "he" character; mouth turned down at the corners ➜ への字に結んだ口

expression / noun:

• mouth shaped like a kana "he" character; mouth turned down at the corners

noun:

• half-assed gyaru; young woman who partially adheres to the gyaru fashion trend - from 中途半端 and ギャル - abbreviation - slang ➜ ギャル