noun:

• infantry troops (in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force)

noun:

• Kentoku era (of the Southern Court) (1370.7.24-1372.4.?)

noun:

• glowing ember (either red hot charcoal or the glowing remains of burnt firewood); live charcoal ➜ 燠【おき】

noun:

• roasted mochi pieces (usu. flavoured with soy sauce, or sweetened with sugar, etc.)

noun:

• deconstruction (as in the term coined by Jacques Derrida)

noun:

• Pleiades (esp. in winter) - obscure term ➜ 昴

noun:

• Momoyama period (latter half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1583-1600 CE) ➜ 安土桃山時代

noun:

• obstruction markings (red or yellow and white markings on structures taller than 60 meters in accordance with Japanese aviation law)

noun:

• Postal Bureau (within the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications) ➜ 郵便業務【ゆうびんぎょうむ】

noun:

• government-run workshop of Buddhist sculptors (during the Nara period) ➜ 仏所

noun:

• Flash game (i.e. browser game made with Adobe Flash)

noun:

• Kristallnacht (night of concerted violence against Jews in Germany and Austria from November 9-10, 1938)

noun:

• tabulate corals (extinct corals of the order Tabulata)

noun / ~する noun:

• (engaging in a round of) mutual criticism; repeated attacks on each other - four character idiom

noun:

• fifth degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音

~と adverb / ~たる adjective / ~の noun:

• profusely (esp. flowers blooming in great profusion) ➜ 百花繚乱

noun / ~の noun:

• xiphoid (relating to the lower part of the sternum); chondroxiphoid

noun:

• mountain language (euphemisms used by hunters, etc. when in the wild) ➜ 忌み詞

noun:

• (mobile phone) number portability (introduced to Japan in October 2005) ➜ ナンバーポータビリティー

expression:

• growing (graph rising to the right); expanding; soaring

~の noun:

• crowded (e.g. with people); overflowing

noun:

• violent scene (in a movie, etc.)

noun:

• halation (i.e. in photography, a halo-effect when additional light leaks out around the subject)

noun:

• chalazion (sebaceous cyst of the eyelid); tarsal cyst

noun:

• waterweed (any aquatic plant of genus Elodea, esp. common waterweed, Elodea canadensis)