noun:

• day on which many companies hold shareholders meetings (to limit disruption by would-be blackmailers)

noun:

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

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 / ~する noun:

• death due to shock (triggered by blood loss, heart failure or other causes)

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides and no ran ➜ 襴

noun:

• standard formal wear worn by students, usu. when going to interviews - From English "recruit suit"

expression:

• undesirable state brought about by (my) lack of virtue; feeling morally responsible; mea culpa - with an apologetic tone

adverb:

• at the mercy of (e.g. wind, waves); (act) as one is told (by) - in form 〜のまにまに ➜ ままに

noun / ~する noun:

• preparing a rice field for planting by flooding it and tilling the soil

noun:

• laws established by daimyo applicable only in their own domain (during the Warring States period) ➜ 戦国大名

noun:

• moon, snow and flowers; beauty of the four seasons (from a poem by Bai Juyi) ➜ 雪月花

noun:

• diagnostic sphygmopalpation (in traditional Chinese medicine); medical diagnosis performed by feeling one's pulse

noun:

• literary style from the Heian era onwards, often mainly in kana and written by women

noun:

• fine monk's robes worn by members of the imperial household, nobility, councilors (councillors), etc.

adverb:

• anyway; anyhow; as one likes
• by all means; at any cost; no matter what it takes

noun:

• turning a concealed pung into an open kong by calling another player's discard - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

noun / ~する noun:

• binding firmly; restraining; restricting; confining; entangling - obscure term
• being bound by evil desires; klesha - obscure term - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩【ぼんのう】

noun:

• family; dependents; household - obscure term

noun:

• chima jeogori; chi'ma chogori; costume traditionally worn by Korean women - From Korean ➜ チマ・チョゴリ

noun:

• new release of a song by the original artist or composer - From English "self cover"

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• coincidence; chance; accident; fortuity Antonym: 必然

adverb:

• by chance; unexpectedly; accidentally

noun:

• contingency (philosophy)

noun / suffix noun:

• death; decease
• death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation) - archaism ➜ 五刑

noun:

• (an) out - Baseball term

noun / ~する noun:

• reading aloud Antonym: 黙読 ➜ 朗読
• reading a kanji by its Chinese-derived pronunciation ➜ 音読み