noun:

• pseudo-foreign company; company based abroad but whose main country of business is Japan - Law term ➜ 外国会社

noun:

• checking of a text (usu. translation) by a native speaker - From English "native check"

expression / adverb:

• at the very beginning; first of all; before anything else; first and foremost

noun:

• deutomerite; posterior sac; posterior chamber - Medicine term
• women's quarters at the rear of a house

noun:

• small amount of money (to buy sandals or cover travel expenses); small farewell gift

noun:

• custom of having toddlers step on a sticky rice cake on their first birthday

noun:

• hanakkori (Brassica napus cv. Hanakkori); hybrid of choy sum and broccoli invented in Yamaguchi prefecture

noun:

• queen of the Andes (Puya raimondii); titanka; puya de Raimondi

noun:

• passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• fitness training; development of physical strength; building stamina; keeping up one's fitness

noun:

• note a semitone below the fourth degree of the Chinese and Japanese pentatonic scale - Music term ➜ 徴【ち】

noun:

• Brexit; withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

noun:

• route for a date; course of activities for dating couples - From English "date course"

noun:

• slip of the tongue; verbal mistake; using the wrong words; misstatement; gaffe ➜ 言い損なう

expression:

• blessed are the peacemakers; one should appreciate and follow the advice of a mediator - proverb ➜ 時の氏神【ときのうじがみ】・挨拶

expression:

• birds of a feather flock together; don't mix your horses with your cows - proverb

noun:

• challenging members of a dojo to a fight and demanding money upon winning

expression / noun:

• empty eyes; thousand-yard stare; blank glaze; expressionless look; eyes of a dead fish [literal] - idiom

expression:

• it's the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan's fault; LDP-blamer - from 自民が ..; used to mock critics of the LDP - slang - derogatory term ➜ 自民党

noun / ~する noun:

• helping a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop

noun / ~する noun:

• guidance; leading (the way); showing around
• information; notice; notification
• announcement (of one's arrival)
• invitation
• acquaintance; knowledge

noun:

• lump; mass; bundle; clump; clod; cluster
• group; crowd
• embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification

noun / ~する noun:

• advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; briefing session
• overlap (of a coat, etc.)
• making something match exactly - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• changing household registry; transfer (e.g. of one's name in the register)
• transferring to a different team - Sports term

noun:

• last moment; eleventh hour - idiom
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period - orig. meaning