noun:

• losing posture; falling position from which it is impossible to recover - Sumo term
• lame duck ➜ レームダック
• hopeless situation

~の noun / noun:

• modern; up-to-date - From French "nouveau"

noun:

• art nouveau - abbreviation ➜ アールヌーボー

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• vague; fuzzy; elusive; slippery; mysterious - onomatopoeia ➜ ぬうっと・ぼうっと

noun:

• bill; account
• very successful amateur wrestler, allowed to start professional career in makushita division - Sumo term

noun:

• one cup (of sake)
• (going out for, treating someone to) a drink; small drinking party

noun:

• children's game similar to marbles, played with coin-shaped coloured glass ➜ 弾き【はじき】
• tiddlywink; counter

noun:

• publicness (degree to which a particular action will affect society as large); public nature; commonality

adjective:

• friendly; affable; amiable; sociable; loving company; (animals) taking kindly to men

noun:

• student waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination ➜ 浪人

noun:

• long thin strip of dried sea-ear or paper attached to a gift

noun:

• blow received by a bystander; getting dragged in to somebody else's fight

noun:

• minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)

noun:

• snack (to have with a drink); side dish - polite language ➜ 摘み

noun:

• type of crime which requires a formal complaint from the victim in order to prosecute - Law term

noun:

• going according to one's wishes ➜ 不如意【ふにょい】
• ceremonial sceptre used by monks when reciting sutras (scepter) - Buddhism term

noun:

• high-class Edo-period pleasure house (where outside prostitutes were hired to entertained guests)

expression:

• not at all inferior to; compare favorably (with); being even better than; rivalling; surpassing

noun:

• special version of a product with features that allow it to be used for evaluation - abbreviation - From English "evaluation chip"

noun:

• crime committed for fun; criminal who takes delight in people's reaction to his crimes

noun:

• involvement of peer groups (Quality Assurance term)
• application to similar products
• grassroots (organization, development, movement)

noun:

• allowance paid by the Sumo Association to a coach for each wrestler in his stable - Sumo term

noun:

• ineptitude and inaction; being incapable of devising any appropriate measures to cope with the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• etalon (optical element with parallel surfaces used to increase the coherent length of a laser)

adjective:

• ominous; sinister; unlucky; ill-omened
• annoying - archaism
• appearing to be true; plausible - archaism

noun:

• day on which many companies hold shareholders meetings (to limit disruption by would-be blackmailers)

noun:

• Yamataikoku; historical Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period