noun:

• announcer; presenter; broadcaster; reporter
• in-house television talent who does on-location fluff pieces for variety shows

noun:

• used women's clothing store (catering to male clientele who purchase panties, high-school uniforms, etc. for sexual arousal) ➜ ブルセラ

noun:

• door-to-door manzai; form of comedy orig. performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai ➜ 漫才

noun:

• sardine and holly charm; sardine head and holly branch placed next to the front door during setsubun to ward off demons

noun:

• air; atmosphere
• mood; situation ➜ 空気を読む【くうきをよむ】
• someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all - colloquialism - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• gofer; dogsbody; person who is made to do things or get things for someone else

noun:

• cramschool (for boys and girls who wish to go on to the next stage of education)

noun:

• homosexual prostitute who sold favors at banquets, etc. (late Edo) - archaism ➜ 若衆【わかしゅ】
• actor-in-training in kabuki - archaism

noun:

• Alan Smithee (pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project); Allen Smithee

noun:

• Izanami; female deity who gave birth to Japan and the sun, moon, and storm gods ➜ 伊弉諾尊

expression:

• like a pigeon who's been shot by a peashooter (i.e. wide-eyed in shock)

expression / noun:

• the pot calling the kettle black; people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - idiom

noun:

• man (esp. one who is well-respected)
• samurai ➜ 侍

suffix noun:

• person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member

noun:

• solo exhibition; one-man exhibition; one-woman exhibition

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to persuade; to prevail upon; to win a woman's heart; to win over; to talk someone into doing

noun:

• one's in-laws (esp. a woman's in-laws)

expression:

• loving couple; couple of lovebirds; happily married couple (who are always together)

noun:

• provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime

noun:

• new straw; straw from the current year
• rice seedlings boiled and dried and then tied into a woman's hair to chase evil spirits away

noun:

• equinoctial week (when Buddhist services are held)
• Buddhist services during the equinoctial week - abbreviation ➜ 彼岸会
• nirvana - Buddhism term ➜ 此岸

noun:

• someone who curls up under a kotatsu all winter; kotatsu bug; kotatsu snail - pun on かたつむり - colloquialism ➜ こたつ・こたつむり

noun:

• recipient; receiver; acceptor; taker
• skilled practitioner (of judo, sumo, etc.) - Martial Arts, Sumo term
• person who picks up the cards (in karuta games) ➜ 読み手

noun:

• Yatagarasu (mythical raven who aided Emperor Jimmu on his eastern expedition) - obscure term ➜ 八咫烏
• three-legged crow inhabiting the sun in Chinese mythology ➜ 八咫烏

noun:

• new adult (in Japan, 20-year-old who has their coming-of-age ceremony within that year)

noun:

• apprenticeship in the running of a household; prospective bride who undertakes an apprenticeship to learn housekeeping - four character idiom