noun:

• (logical) conversion (transposition of subject and predicate to form a new proposition)

noun:

• local governmental body that requires federal oversight to recover from its debts

noun:

• man used by a woman to pay for her meals - slang ➜ 飯【めし】

noun:

• mercy killing (euthanasia performed to end someone's suffering, but without consent) ➜ 安楽死

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pierce something all the way through (with a lance, arrow, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• signs, symbols and characters used in manga to represent actions, emotions, etc. - slang

noun:

• small block of wood used to clean one's buttocks after defecating

noun:

• dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva) - Buddhism term

noun:

• aschelminth (any invertebrate animal formerly classified as belonging to phylum Aschelminthes)

noun:

• diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint ➜ 陽動作戦

expression:

• head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language - archaism ➜ ませんでした

noun:

• mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener, i.e. sore, soko, sochira) - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• creeping (i.e. growing along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - Kansai dialect ➜ ない

interjection:

• humph; hmph

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to write ruby characters (small furigana above or beside kanji) ➜ ルビ・振り仮名

expression:

• having the luck to escape trouble (your behaviour has landed you in)

noun:

• manas (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self) - Buddhism term ➜ 末那識

expression:

• great vigor; tremendous energy; forceful enough to knock down birds in flight [literal] - idiom

noun:

• tonfa (traditional Okinawan weapon similar to a nightstick) - Ryūkyū dialect

noun:

• short clip used to begin and end commercial breaks on Japanese TV - From English "eyecatch"

noun:

• Michelia compressa (species of Japanese tree similar to champak)

expression:

• midsummer greetings; to inquiry after someone's health in the hot season - humble language ➜ 暑中お見舞い

noun:

• droit de suite (artist's right to receive a royalty on resale)