noun:

• era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi - Sumo term

noun:

• ineptitude and inaction; being incapable of devising any appropriate measures to cope with the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• etalon (optical element with parallel surfaces used to increase the coherent length of a laser)

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of the mora 'n', primarily from verb stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 促音便

noun:

• Clusiaceae; Guttiferae; family of plants including St. John's worts and mangosteens

expression / adverb:

• one more; another; the other ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• not quite ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• close run; just falling short of success

noun:

• seasoning of grated daikon with soy and vinegar, usually for fish or vegetables - Food term

noun:

• Golden Triangle (area near the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos)

noun:

• mysterious turtle (an omen of good luck) - obscure term
• Reiki era (715.9.2-717.11.17)

noun:

• harvesting rice while it is still green
• recruiting of university students before the agreed date ➜ 青田買い【あおたがい】

noun:

• mixture of mayonnaise and canned tuna, used on bread, pasta, etc.

noun:

• tiles used to cover nail holes in cypress bark roofing for the purpose of waterproofing

noun:

• Sunni Triangle (area of Iraq bounded by Baghdad, Ramadi and Tikrit)

noun / ~する noun:

• beginning one's studies with something familiar and gradually increasing the depth of learning - four character idiom

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine

noun:

• obfuscated style of Japanese text, used particularly by young women in keitai emails

noun:

• off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink

noun:

• person appointed by an electoral nominee to be in charge of their campaign-fund accounting

noun:

• romanization (representation of foreign words using the Roman alphabet); romanized spelling

noun:

• large-scale, long-running TV series (esp. of period pieces produced by NHK) ➜ 大河小説

noun:

• Potsdam Declaration (July 26, 1945 statement establishing the terms of a Japanese surrender)

noun:

• women's volunteer corps; groups of young female workers organized on Japanese territory during WWII

noun:

• second life (esp. that of a retiree)
• SecondLife (online virtual world)

noun:

• Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni)

noun:

• twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activities