noun:

• designated organized crime group; designated criminal organisation; designated boryokudan; designated yakuza group; group officially listed as criminal by the National Police Agency ➜ 暴力団

adverb:

• in general; generally; mostly; roughly; largely; mainly; on the whole; by and large

noun:

• gist; point; main idea

noun:

• here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place ➜ 何処・其処・彼処
• these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker) ➜ 今迄
• these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ... ➜ 此れから

pre-noun adjectival:

• that (something or someone distant from the speaker, close to the listener; actions of the listener, or ideas expressed or understood by the listener); the ➜ 何の【どの】・此の・其れ・彼の

interjection:

• um...; er...; uh...

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of ➜ あんな・こんな・どんな

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to meet (by chance); to come across; to run across; to encounter; to happen upon - 出遭う usu. has a negative connotation
• to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.) ［出会う・出合う］ - esp. 出合う
• to emerge and engage (an enemy) ［出会う・出合う］ - often used imperatively as 出会え

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to partition; to divide
• to interpose; to have between
• to alienate; to estrange

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be taught (by); to learn from

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to expedite; to precipitate - usu. 早める
• to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate - usu. 速める

noun / ~の noun:

• metropolitan (i.e. established by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government)

noun:

• investigation (e.g. by police or prosecutors); examination; inquiry; enquiry

noun:

• New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors) ➜ 年玉

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be brought forward (e.g. by three hours); to be moved up; to be advanced ［早まる］
• to be hasty; to be rash ［早まる］
• to quicken; to speed up; to gather speed - esp. 速まる

noun:

• Ina Bauer (figure skating technique first performed in 1957 by West German skater Ina Bauer)

noun:

• abduction issue (esp. of those Japanese abducted by North Korea)

noun:

• communicable disease control (e.g. by quarantine, disinfection, etc.); prevention of epidemics

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (e.g. by a scanner)

noun:

• (death by) hanging

noun:

• talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; chat
• talk show - abbreviation ➜ トークショー
• toque

noun:

• Zipangu (the name for Japan used by Marco Polo) - From Italian

noun:

• firm-sided backpack made of leather, etc. (used by Japanese elementary schoolchildren, often red for girls and black for boys) - From Dutch "ransel"

noun:

• southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south) - archaism - derogatory term
• South-East Asia - archaism
• Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies) - archaism ➜ 紅毛

prefix:

• exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style)

noun:

• (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm) - usu.ナンバ
• food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions - abbreviation ➜ 南蛮煮【なんばんに】

noun:

• bitter enemies (placed by fate) in the same boat - four character idiom ➜ 呉越【ごえつ】

noun:

• getting information (esp. by interviewing witnesses, etc. in a police investigation)

noun / ~する noun:

• criticism (by a teacher or coach, with commentary, especially at a poetry reading); review; critique