noun:

• unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items

noun:

• Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)

noun:

• starfish; sea star; asteroid; any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea
• northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)

noun:

• six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)

noun:

• miyairigai (Oncomelania hupensis nosophora); freshwater snail that acts as an intermediate host of the Japanese blood fluke ➜ 片山貝

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall down; to fall over
• to turn out; to play out ［ころぶ］ - oft. as どう転んでも
• to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize ［ころぶ］ - in early Japanese Christianity
• to roll; to tumble ➜ ころがる
• (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• bringing up a matter; discussion; debate; submission (e.g. a measure); referral (e.g. bill to a committee); placing (e.g. item on an agenda)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to slash back
• to strike back; to counterattack; to retort
• to cut the wheel
• to perform a twisting backward knee trip - Sumo term ➜ 切り返し

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to go to bed; to go to sleep; to fall asleep
• to be laid up (with a cold); to be ill in bed

noun:

• muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders)
• lump (in tissue, esp. breast); swelling; hardening; lesion ［しこり］ - Medicine term
• lingering discomfort; uneasiness; bad aftertaste; unpleasant feeling ［しこり］

noun / ~する noun:

• provision of lunch (e.g. at office, school, etc.); providing a meal; lunch service ➜ 学校給食【がっこうきゅうしょく】

noun:

• skin
• condom - colloquialism
• skin (e.g. alternative look and feel for interface of a program) - IT term

noun:

• turret; watchtower
• high wooden stage; scaffolding
• wooden frame (of a kotatsu) ➜ 炬燵
• weapons storehouse - archaism

noun:

• (one's) initials; first letter (of a name, sentence, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• initial; first

noun / ~する noun:

• beating someone up by ganging up on them; facing a barrage of criticism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to feel like an idiot; to make a fool of yourself

noun:

• sweeping over (e.g. of a natural disaster); engulfing
• sweeping victory; clean sweep

noun:

• configuration (e.g. of a computer or file); user preferences; system environment; environment setting - IT term

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to strip a person of all his or her clothes
• to steal someone blind - slang

noun:

• motorized two-wheeled vehicle (with a displacement of less than 50cc); motorized bicycle ➜ 原付

noun:

• Fujiwara period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 894-1185 CE)

noun:

• Hakuho period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 645-710 CE)

noun:

• pip (spot on a die)
• small cube (esp. of food); die; dice

noun:

• samurai and commoners
• normal people (as opposed to people of a high social standing)

noun:

• lowest part; bottom (or footer) of a page, computer screen, on-screen window, etc.