noun:

• Imperial Declaration of Humanity (wherein Hirohito renounced the imperial claim to divinity; Jan. 1, 1946)

noun:

• Shuhari; three stages of learning mastery: the fundamentals, breaking with tradition, parting with traditional wisdom - Martial Arts term

noun:

• headliner
• latter half of a formal tea ceremony (in which the tea is actually consumed) ➜ 初座

noun:

• lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)

noun:

• Achilles argument (i.e. Achilles and the tortoise; one of Zeno's paradoxes) ➜ ゼノンの逆説

noun:

• beriberi ➜ 脚気【かっけ】

noun / ~する noun / ~と adverb:

• tearing off something stuck on the surface of something else (e.g. duct tape) - onomatopoeia

noun:

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

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress

noun:

• skipping grades; the act of entering a new school as a non-first-year student

noun:

• chronixis surgeonfish (Acanthurus chronixis, Western-Pacific species of tang from Kapingamarangi in the Caroline Islands)

noun:

• tasselled wobbegong (Eucrossorhinus dasypogon, sole species of the carpet shark genus Eucrossorhinus) ➜ タッセルドウォビゴン

noun:

• western wobbegon (Orectolobus hutchinsi, species of carpet shark from Western Australia)

noun:

• spot-tail shark (Carcharhinus sorrah, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• blacknose shark (Carcharhinus acronotus, species of requiem shark common in the western Atlantic)

noun:

• night shark (Carcharhinus signatus, species of nocturnally active requiem shark found in the Atlantic Ocean)

noun:

• Brazilian sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon lalandii, species of requiem shark found in the western Atlantic Ocean)

noun:

• grey sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon oligolinx, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• clouded monitor (Varanus nebulosus, species of diurnal carnivorous monitor lizard native to South-East Asia)

noun:

• West African spadefish (Chaetodipterus lippei, species of Eastern Atlantic spadefish found from Senegal to Angola)

noun:

• outdoor party where guests cook various types of vegetables (esp. in Tōhoku); stewed potato party [literal]

noun:

• Protectorate General of Annam; Han-period Chinese office established in Hanoi in 622 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• underboob; bottom of a woman's breasts (visible when wearing a short top) - slang ➜ オッパイ

noun:

• person at a public bath in charge of heating the water and filling the baths

noun:

• holiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months - archaism

noun:

• dispute over the distribution of water into paddies during the summer (in rural areas) ➜ 水争い