noun:

• Japanese-style business management; adoption of Japanese business practices (such as lifelong employment, seniority-based promotions, etc.)

noun:

• consecration ceremony

noun:

• physiognomist

noun:

• garden stone

expression / noun:

• bitter experience

noun / ~する noun:

• trying to conceive; attempting to get pregnant (through various means) - abbrev. of 妊娠活動 - abbreviation - colloquialism

noun:

• kanji "day" radical at left (radical 72) - as in 晴

noun / ~する noun:

• consent; recognition

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• approval; certification ➜ 認可

noun / ~する noun:

• change again and again; seesaw back and forth; being in a state of flux; backtracking repeatedly - four character idiom

noun:

• second blooming

noun:

• incoming traffic - IT term

noun / ~の noun:

• milk sugar; lactose

noun:

• tathagatagarbha (buddha-womb, the potential within all living things to become a buddha) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• incoming telephone call
• telegram received

noun:

• before sunset

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• slitheringly; wriggling, slipping and sliding - onomatopoeia

noun:

• sunflower (Helianthus annuus) ➜ 向日葵

noun:

• bittern; concentrated solution of salts (esp. magnesium chloride) left over after the crystallization of seawater or brine

noun:

• second year (college) student; sophomore

noun:

• way of cooking; a cook

noun:

• kanji "ice" radical

noun:

• being entered in a new family register (through adoption, marriage, etc.) - obsolete term - Law term

noun:

• double star; visual double - Astronomy term

noun / ~の noun:

• Japanese style; Japanesque; Japanism

noun / ~する noun:

• entrance into drift or pit