expression:

• zombie businesses (firms that would have failed but for government intervention)

noun:

• machine for making (white) lines (in sport fields, etc.) - From English "line car"

noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• tourist bus with high seating for better sight-seeing - From English "high decker, high-deck car" ➜ 観光バス

noun:

• celestial body seen only for a short time (e.g. comet)

noun:

• stone for cutting one's pubic hair (in public baths)(Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• Chinese name for a high government office (ritsuryo period)
• alias; pseudonym ［からな］ - archaism

noun:

• downloadable content (e.g. for a video game); DLC - From English "download contents"

noun:

• drink box; carton (milk, juice, etc.); paper bag (for vacuum cleaners)

noun:

• oldest architectural style for Shinto shrines (e.g. used at Izumo shrine)

noun:

• fashion style for young women invoking a soft, forest-like feeling

noun:

• hostess club; bar with female companions for male customers - From English "cabaret club" ➜ キャバクラ

noun:

• quota for recommendations (e.g. student admissions, new team members, etc.); recommendation limit

noun / ~の noun:

• a woman's natural inclination to care for others; big-sisterly disposition

noun:

• solitary confinement in a dark cell without bedding (for up to one week)

expression / noun:

• formal complaint (regarding conduct of a criminal case); appeal for reconsideration; protest - Law term

noun:

• middle-aged woman who looks very young for her age (as through "magic") ➜ 魔女

noun / ~する noun:

• preservation of machinery or vehicles for display purposes (i.e. no longer operational) ➜ 動態保存

noun:

• barracks; cantonment
• temporary lodging with roof but no walls (esp. for military exercises) - orig. meaning

noun:

• Sun Tzu (Chinese military strategist, 544?-496 BCE) - honorific language
• The Art of War (military text by Sun Tzu, 512 BC) ➜ 孫子の兵法
• Sun Bin Bing Fa (military text by Sun Bin)

adjectival noun:

• plausible (e.g. of a rumour); believable (e.g. of a story); specious (e.g. of an argument); credible (e.g. of a lie); looking very like the truth

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to shift; to slide (e.g. something away from something else); to move (e.g. something out of the way)
• to put off; to delay; to postpone; to stagger (e.g. working hours)

noun:

• brown-spotted spinefoot (Siganus stellatus, species of rabbitfish from the Indian Ocean); starspotted spinefoot; tellate rabbitfish; yellow-tail starry rabbitfish ➜ イエローテールスターリーラビットフィッシュ

noun / ~する noun:

• grinding of the teeth; involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism
• grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation; gnashing one's teeth; gritting one's teeth

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put a stop to; to put a hold on; to put the brakes on; to call a halt to; to block; to shelve