noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); comfort women [literal] - euphemism ➜ 従軍慰安婦

noun:

• selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

noun:

• Uden Shinto (Shinto doctrines enunciated by Kamo no Norikiyo of Kamigamo Shrine)

noun:

• surface rights (i.e. the right to build a house, etc. on land owned by another); superficies

noun:

• crossbow (incl. large models operated by a number of people)
• netted apparatus atop a wall containing large stones, which were dropped onto attackers by cutting the net
• slingshot; catapult

noun:

• irrumatio (fellatio wherein the majority of movement is performed by the fellatee); face-fucking - vulgar - slang - From Latin ➜ フェラチオ

noun:

• (by the lunar calendar) 16th night of the month

noun:

• cloud of ashes (caused by pouring water on a fire)

noun:

• time of receipt (of a package, etc. by the post office)

noun:

• fire balloon (experimental weapon launched by Japan during World War II); balloon bomb

noun:

• anthropozoonosis (diseases transmitted to humans by animals)

noun:

• (time limit imposed by the) statute of limitations

noun:

• young person who stays in their (non-metropolitan) hometown after graduation, drives a car, etc. (unlike the majority who moves to a larger city and commutes by train) ➜ ヤンキー

noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language) ➜ 小新聞
• major newspaper

noun:

• Xiuyaojing (Indian astrological text written by Amoghavajra)

noun:

• the four northern islands (held by Russia); south Kuril Islands; northern territories

expression:

• (preceded by v-te) not long has passed since ...

noun:

• soft, crumpled, unlacquered headwear (often worn by soldiers under their helmets from the Kamakura period onward) ➜ 烏帽子

noun:

• toddler clothes (by children after age 3, before age 5); baby clothes

noun:

• party line (telephone line shared by multiple subscribers)

noun:

• pneumoconiosis (lung disease caused by dust inhalation)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to incur the wrath of god (e.g. by speaking ill of somebody behind their back); to get into trouble
• to warp one's mouth

expression / noun:

• the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

noun:

• Daijisen (major Japanese dictionary published by Shogakukan)

noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party ➜ 合コン