noun:

• rapid pace at which the information technology field moves - From English "dog year"
• dog's ear ➜ ドッグイヤ

adverbial noun / conjunction:

• etc.; otherwise; besides; in addition; the rest; the others; and so forth - そのた is the more common reading when written

noun / ~する noun:

• close examination; careful selection; testing; scrutiny
• examination of criminal charges
• reciting and appreciating traditional poetry - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• star (esp. television); personality - From English "talent"
• talent; skill
• talent; unit of currency in ancient Greece and Israel ➜ タラント

noun:

• administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures

noun:

• binding hand and foot; temporary feeling of paralysis; sleep paralysis
• being tied down with money - colloquialism

noun:

• Hikari; high-speed Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (faster than Kodama; slower than Nozomi) ➜ こだま・のぞみ

noun / ~する noun:

• going from door to door greeting relatives and friends
• complimentary visit for the New Year

noun / ~する noun:

• enduring something out of pride; putting up with it; grinning and bearing it

noun:

• bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts) ➜ コケ植物

adjectival noun:

• explosive
• sudden and dramatic (of an increase in sales, popularity, etc.); explosive; rapid; abrupt; tremendous

noun / ~する noun:

• broken into small fragments; smashed to atoms; fragments and splinters; smithereens

noun:

• baby talk (e.g. "choo-choo" for train); words and speech patterns used by infants

noun:

• bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts) - obscure term ➜ コケ植物

noun:

• dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)

noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

noun:

• harmony, respect, purity and tranquility; the four most important elements of the tea ceremony - four character idiom

noun:

• in company; among people ［じんちゅう］ ➜ 人中【ひとなか】
• philtrum; vertical groove between the nose and the upper lip - Anatomy term

noun:

• state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period

particle:

• particle used to indicate that what precedes it is an extreme example and strongly negates it ➜ どころか

noun:

• distinctive body odor (odour) of the middle-aged and elderly (caused by the chemical nonenal) ➜ ノネナール

noun:

• prefixed unit of measurement (i.e. millimeter, kilogram, etc.) - obsolete term
• supplementary SI unit (radian and steradian) ➜ 組立単位

noun:

• New Ainu Law (passed in 1997, aiming at promoting and protecting Ainu culture)

noun:

• moon
• Tsukuyomi (god of the moon in Shinto and mythology)