noun:

• in-home separation; quasi-divorce; marriage that has broken down but where the wife and husband still live together without getting a divorce

noun:

• person whose physical suitability for conscription in the former Japanese military could not be determined in that year (e.g. due to illness)

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose

noun / ~の noun:

• seeing for the first time; first sight; first meeting

noun:

• sight-reading - Music term

expression:

• in any case; in either case; whichever the case may be

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to leave as; to view as; to maintain the status quo

godan ~る verb:

• to push and push; to keep pushing to the end

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to reap completely; to trim up (the hair); to dress up

noun:

• the average Joe; your average nice guy; Joe Blow; Joe Bloggs - four character idiom ➜ 熊さん八っつあん

godan ~る verb:

• to act the goody-goody; to pretend to be nice

noun:

• moral harassment; workplace mobbing; workplace bullying; psychological harassment at the workplace

noun:

• moral harassment; workplace mobbing; workplace bullying; psychological harassment at the workplace - abbreviation ➜ モラルハラスメント

noun:

• atmospheric oxidation; oxidation upon exposure to the air; air oxidation; smoothering

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to begin to know; to know for the first time

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to furnish; to install
• to get someone's agreement
• to patronize; to buy usually from the same store

suffix / adjective:

• extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); unparalleled - suffix often in kana

adjective:

• boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless

noun:

• sea sand (sand collected from the ocean floor, as opposed to that which is used as an ingredient in concrete)

noun / ~する noun:

• preaching down; breaking down somebody's false beliefs through confrontation (in order to convert them to the right faith) - Buddhism term

noun:

• people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced Continental culture to the Japanese

noun:

• material before the opening credits in a film, anime, etc. - From English "avant title"

noun:

• song sung by children during the New Year's bird-driving procession (later adopted by door-to-door musicians) ➜ 鳥追い【とりおい】・門付歌

noun:

• plastic toy (e.g. fish) suspended in a sealed glass tube filled with fluid; toy for use in the bath - obscure term

adverb:

• too; also; likewise; either
• still; as before
• even so; either way; nonetheless; in any event; all the same
• as expected

noun / ~する noun:

• being on stage when the curtain opens

noun:

• wooden floor; wooden-floored room
• thinly-sliced food grilled on a cedar board ➜ 板焼き

noun:

• city pop; Japanese music genre popular in the 1980's