noun:

• batten door; battened door; ledged door; strong door with crosspieces placed on the reverse side

noun:

• negative question; question asked in the negative (e.g. "Can't you read Japanese?") - Linguistics term

noun:

• walking about town; stroll around town; walking the streets (e.g. for exercise)

expression:

• when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fess up; to come clean; to confess one's crimes; to spill the beans

expression / noun:

• heavenly voice ➜ 天声
• off the record instructions; influential person's opinion; powerful person's verdict - idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• one's prosperity being on the rise; one's fortune reaching its culmination - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to smooth with the hand; to stroke; to comb (down)
• to pluck a stringed instrument

noun:

• longing for freedom when tied down; caged bird's longing for the open sky [literal] - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to set foot into; to enter; to step inside; to cross the threshold

noun:

• writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips) - colloquialism

noun:

• non-store app; smartphone app not distributed through the official smartphone stores ➜ 野良【のら】

noun:

• non-store app; smartphone app not distributed through the official smartphone stores

noun:

• non-store app; smartphone app not distributed through the official smartphone stores

noun:

• non-store app; smartphone app not distributed through the official smartphone stores

expression:

• to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - from a fable in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals - idiom

expression:

• to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - idiom

expression:

• to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - from a fable in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals - idiom

noun:

• exhibition game; friendly match; friendly - Sports term
• interleague game between the Central and Pacific baseball leagues - Sports term ➜ セ・パ

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• in passing another (esp. colliding with oncoming traffic, bumping into a person); the moment two persons or objects meet

noun / ~する noun:

• obtaining items such as books, CDs and DVDs before the date they officially go on sale - From English "flying get"

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• you'll have to pay for it; the bill will come due; there's no escaping

noun / suffix noun:

• special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi) - archaism

noun:

• secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu - archaism ➜ 大宰府

noun:

• cylindrical candy made so that Kintaro's face appears wherever it is sliced ➜ 金太郎・金太郎

adjectival noun:

• inflexibly uniform; all the same; stamped out like cookies

noun:

• street performance in which the performer transforms a specially-made bamboo screen into various shapes while chanting an accompanying poem ➜ 南京【ナンキン】・簾【すだれ】