noun:

• people who study or work while listening to the radio (or watching television, etc.)

noun:

• agreement used to prevent unauthorized or faked divorce by couples in Japan in the future

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking metal against stone) - obscure term

noun:

• yellow dog contract (employment contract which forbids the employee to join a labor union)

noun:

• love of a knight for a courtly lady (upon which he is unable to act) - From German "Minne"

noun:

• (as opposed to those compiled later) ancient fudoki compiled by imperial order in 713 CE ➜ 風土記

noun:

• Imperial Declaration of Humanity (wherein Hirohito renounced the imperial claim to divinity; Jan. 1, 1946)

noun:

• pitching forward, as if to fall ➜ のめる

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• proactive; forward-looking; positive
• hasty (without sufficient preparation); rushed

noun:

• backyard
• background
• room in a store or restaurant not open to customers (often storage room) - colloquialism

noun:

• clouded monitor (Varanus nebulosus, species of diurnal carnivorous monitor lizard native to South-East Asia)

noun:

• West African spadefish (Chaetodipterus lippei, species of Eastern Atlantic spadefish found from Senegal to Angola)

noun:

• series of articulated plates attached to the back and sides of a Japanese helmet ➜ 兜

noun:

• something cold (esp. a body)
• something used to cool one's stomach

noun:

• hairstyle for men and women from early Edo era to the Genroku era

noun:

• holiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months - archaism

expression:

• blood libel; false accusation that Jews (or other minorities) murder children to obtain their blood

noun:

• multiple people holding the same item with their chopsticks
• passing something from chopstick to chopstick

expression:

• you wish!; that's not going to happen; not a chance - pun on そうは行かぬ - humorous term

expression:

• come!; imperative form of the verb "kuru" ("to come"), expressing a command or strong request ➜ 来る【くる】

noun:

• persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story ➜ 泣き落とす

noun:

• (belief in) spiritual power possessed by sisters to protect their brothers (in the Ryukyu Islands)

~の noun / noun:

• full of holes (e.g. argument); vulnerable to any kind of attack (or criticism, etc.)

expression:

• owing a lot to somebody; being indebted; never forgetting someone who has done a favour

noun:

• gathering evidence (e.g. to back a news story); getting the facts; obtaining supporting evidence

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year