expression / ichidan verb:

• to do something with painful reluctance; to have one's hair pulled from behind [literal] - idiom

noun:

• shift away from rice consumption; consumers losing interest in eating rice

noun:

• mounted bandit (esp. historically in NE China from the end of the Qing dynasty)

noun:

• words you can't say on TV or radio; taboo words banned from broadcasts ➜ 放送禁止用語

noun:

• type of hanging scroll (made from paper of approx. 130cm x 30cm in size)

noun:

• over-the-counter drug; medication bought directly from the drugstore without a prescription ➜ 売薬

noun:

• deep bathtub with a water-heating tank; bathtub heated from below ➜ すいふろ

noun:

• small boat used for unloading goods from a large anchored boat (Edo period); lighter ➜ 瀬取り船

adverb:

• from now on; in the future; hereafter; ahead of us; down the road

noun:

• wedge marks in stone (usu. remaining from stone-splitting, now used for visual effect) - obscure term ➜ 矢【や】

noun:

• generation of students educated under the "pressure-free" system (from the late 1970s onward) ➜ ゆとり教育【ゆとりきょういく】

noun:

• passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• Brexit; withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

noun:

• dashi (Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp)
• pretext; excuse; pretense (pretence); dupe; front man ［出し］

noun:

• female announcer; woman who makes public announcements (e.g. from an election campaign truck)

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］

noun:

• doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra) - Buddhism term
• spiritualism (in philosophy) ➜ 唯物

noun:

• allotted rice field (ritsuryo system); land distributed to all citizens from which yields were taxed by the government - archaism

adverb:

• straight (from one place to another); going right onto; on the way; simultaneously; incidentally; directly; at once

noun:

• kabusecha; mild green tea which has been lightly screened from sunlight for 1-3 weeks before picking ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】

noun:

• child from an earlier wife ➜ 後腹【あとばら】
• preceding one's master into death by committing ritual suicide (seppuku) ［さきばら］ ➜ 追い腹

noun:

• variant (in a manuscript or book); part of a text that differs from other versions

noun:

• aftercare; care for patients after discharge from hospital - Medicine term
• after-sales service - From English "after care" ➜ アフターサービス

noun / ~する noun:

• going from door to door greeting relatives and friends
• complimentary visit for the New Year