noun:

• regular position (e.g. in sports team); normal position
• revealing a card in the upright position (tarot, etc.)

noun:

• empowering women; promoting women's contribution; removing obstacles to women's full participation in society and the workplace

noun:

• front facing display (e.g. books displayed on a shelf with the cover facing out); forward facing display ➜ 平積み【ひらづみ】・面出し【めんだし】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fix one's eyes on; to stare intently at; to study carefully (with the eyes)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to elevate; to raise; to lift up
• to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky

adverb:

• about; roughly; approximately ➜ 凡そ【およそ】
• generally; on the whole; as a rule
• completely; quite; entirely; altogether; totally; not at all (with neg. verb)

noun / ~の noun:

• outline; gist

noun:

• military administration; military government ➜ 民政
• government affairs relating to the military

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick it out; to see it to the end

noun / ~する noun:

• success in life; advancement in life; rising in the world - four character idiom

godan ~む verb:

• to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be brief and to the point; to be succinct

expression / ichidan verb:

• to balance the accounts
• to make consistent; to make coherent

noun:

• retort; sealed plastic pouch typically containing ready-made sauce or stew; boil-in-the-bag - Food term
• retort; glass vessel used for distillation (now largely obs.) - Chemistry term - From Dutch

noun:

• collective goods (i.e. goods or services such as parks, highways, etc. which could be supplied privately, but are usually provided by the government) ➜ 公共財

noun:

• anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide - 太宰治

noun:

• year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th & 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter) ➜ 式年祭

noun:

• spreading baseless information to benefit one's own position in the stock market (etc.) - From English "position talk"
• statement that is beneficial to oneself

noun:

• Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

adjective:

• hot; warm; sultry; heated Antonym: 寒い
• passionate; impassioned; burning (desire, etc.)
• on everybody's mind; on the radar; du jour; interested (gaze, etc.)

adverb:

• too; also; likewise; either ➜ 矢っ張り【やっぱり】
• still; as before ➜ 矢っ張り【やっぱり】
• even so; either way; nonetheless; in any event; all the same ➜ 矢っ張り【やっぱり】
• as expected ➜ 矢っ張り【やっぱり】

adverb / expression:

• using anything one can lay one's hands on; haphazardly; on the rebound; at random; indiscriminately

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud

noun / ~する noun:

• turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering; musing; rumination (about a subject)

noun:

• girl who has led a sheltered life; pet daughter; naive girl; ingénue
• wooden block puzzle; Daughter in the Box; Klotski

noun:

• itai-itai disease; mass cadmium poisoning in Toyama Prefecture starting in the 1910's caused by industrial waste ➜ 痛い