noun:

• from island to island; island-hopping

noun:

• refugee; displaced person
• person inconvenienced by (lack of something); person unable to satisfactorily (marry, shop, etc.) - in compound nouns; ～難民 - colloquialism - idiom ➜ 買い物難民【かいものなんみん】

noun:

• race to be the pitcher with the most wins in the season - Baseball term - From English "hurler derby"

noun:

• arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message

noun:

• batting eye; ability to judge whether a pitch will be called a ball or a strike - Baseball term

noun:

• searching for a marriage partner; marriage hunting; activities leading to marriage, e.g. dating, courtship, etc.

noun:

• quince monitor (Varanus melinus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Indonesia); yellow-head monitor ➜ イエローヘッドモニター

noun:

• Timor monitor (Varanus timorensis, species of small carnivorous monitor lizard native to Indonesia); spotted tree monitor

noun:

• sweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year) ➜ 神【かみ】・すす払い

noun:

• cloudy weather near Hokkaido during the herrings season (from the third to the sixth lunar month)

noun:

• oxygen absorber; oxygen scavenger; small packet placed in packaged food to absorb oxygen and prevent oxidation

noun / ~する noun:

• forming a kong by adding a tile drawn from the wall to a declared pung - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

noun:

• examination paper; examination script; answer sheet
• answer (to an exam question)

expression:

• How do you do?; I am glad to meet you

noun / ~する noun:

• leaning to the right
• turning rightist; being on the (political) right ➜ 左傾

noun / ~する noun:

• attending a government office; going to work (for a government official)

noun:

• license with a red seal (licence); shogunate license to trade (licence)

auxiliary adjective / adjective:

• being too many (to finish or complete); being too much

noun:

• all over the body; from head to foot; all over

adverb:

• close to
• directly (e.g. staring)
• suddenly (e.g. stopping)

noun / ~する noun:

• being off to one side; being away off in the country

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to rest one's chin in one's hands

noun:

• direct negotiations; pressing a demand with a face-to-face talk

noun:

• points (already) allotted to one; points (already) gained (in earlier rounds)