noun:

• cool biz; cool business; business casual (Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) campaign encouraging people to wear lighter clothes and for companies to set their air conditioners to 28C, etc.) ➜ ウォームビズ

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to deliver the coup de grace
• to put an end to; to deliver the final blow
• to be the best for A - as ＡはＢに止めを刺す

noun:

• Okinawa (prefecture); region comprising most of Japan's southwestern archipelago (esp. Okinawa Island) ➜ 琉球
• Okinawa (city)

noun:

• dry cough; hacking cough
• intentional cough (i.e. to get someone's attention) - esp. 空咳

noun:

• Heath monitor (Varanus rosenbergi, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in Australia); Rosenberg's monitor

noun:

• back-right corner of rear stage (area behind main noh stage); stage attendant's spot [literal] ➜ 後見

noun:

• radio equipment; facility that can transmit radio waves (as defined in Japan's radio law)

noun:

• being something of an artist; having something of the artist in one - four character idiom

noun:

• being something of a politician; having something of the politician in one - four character idiom

noun:

• Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - sometimes read たまをのぼし or たまほめぼし - abbreviation - Astronomy term ➜ 鬼・魂讃め星・魂緒の星
• "day of the ghost" ➜ 鬼宿日

noun:

• Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - abbreviation - Astronomy term ➜ 鬼・鬼宿・魂讃め星
• "day of the ghost" ➜ 鬼宿日

noun:

• Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - abbreviation - Astronomy term ➜ 鬼・鬼宿・魂緒の星
• "day of the ghost" ➜ 鬼宿日

noun:

• intermediate color; intermediate colour; neutral color or tint; neutral colour

noun:

• having an open hand and no end or honor tiles (yaku, not allowed in some rules); having only suited tiles between 2 and 8 inclusive and having called tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 断ヤオ九

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to let things end up as they will; to let nature take its course
• to make do with what one has

noun:

• principle holding that any matters left unresolved at the end of one Diet session are not to be carried over to the next

noun:

• retainer; attendant - archaism
• Omi (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to sixth highest of eight) ［おみ］ ➜ 八色の姓
• I; me ［しん］ - used by a servant when speaking to their master - humble language

noun:

• style of Shinto architecture in which the main hall and worship hall share one roof, and are connected via an intermediate passageway

noun:

• appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong); announcement of an appointment that turns out to be mere press speculation - four character idiom

noun:

• first day of cherry blossoms reaching full bloom; first day in which at least 80% of the somei yoshino cherry blossom has opened (in a specific region or place)

expression:

• Repeated reading (makes the meaning clear); Reading something again and again (will lead one to realize its meaning) - four character idiom

noun:

• Sañjīva (one of the Eight Greater Hells); hell of being torn to pieces and revived over and over - Buddhism term ➜ 八大地獄【はちだいじごく】

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall down; to fall over
• to turn out; to play out ［ころぶ］ - oft. as どう転んでも
• to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize ［ころぶ］ - in early Japanese Christianity
• to roll; to tumble ➜ ころがる
• (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret - archaism

noun:

• thick printed paper (for covering sliding doors)
• paper sliding-door; sliding door covered with thick paper - abbreviation ➜ 唐紙障子

noun:

• draft; draught; cold air entering through the crack of a door or window
• cooling off of a relationship; draft of cold air between two persons