noun:

• inspection of a completed facility (esp. of radio stations as required under Japanese law); completion inspection

noun:

• Trump Effect; impact on business of the election of Donald Trump as US president

noun:

• ring boy; young boy who serves as ring bearer at a wedding

adverb:

• about; roughly; approximately ➜ おおよそ
• generally; on the whole; as a rule
• completely; quite; entirely; altogether; totally; not at all (with neg. verb)

noun / ~の noun:

• outline; gist

expression:

• if even the most crooked person is surrounded by good people, he will straighten up as does mugwort growing in a hemp field

adjectival noun / noun:

• inhuman; immoral; unreasonable; outrageous; wicked - archaism ➜ 無道

noun:

• (the crime of) barbarity (such as killing three people in one family, or dismembering a corpse) ➜ 八虐

noun:

• driving off birds
• procession held at the New Year to chase away the birds for the year, with children singing songs as the villagers walked from house to house
• female street musician who wore a braided hat and carried a shamisen
• street entertainer who appeared on New Year's eve and performed with a fan

noun:

• sheathing (under thatched roofing) - abbreviation
• lath (used as a foundation for a mud plaster wall)
• decorative rafters (of alternating wood and bamboo) ➜ 桟竹

noun:

• Clarke number; abundance of a chemical element in the Earth's crust, as calculated by geochemist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke - Geology term

noun:

• putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism - four character idiom

noun:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs)

expression:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs) ➜ 犬猿

noun:

• Japanese-style business management; adoption of Japanese business practices (such as lifelong employment, seniority-based promotions, etc.)

noun:

• white powder (lead carbonate) used in the past as face pigment and used in paint more recently

noun:

• crab shell (often ground or crushed and used as fertilizer); crab shell meal

noun:

• earth; soil; dirt; clay; mud
• the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; the land
• low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud) ➜ 鳥の子紙
• (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō) - also written as 犯土, 椎, 槌 ➜ 陰陽道

expression:

• it is so; it is as such - archaism

expression:

• it is so; it is as such - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• what if (as in "what if" stories)

noun:

• errand; mission; going as envoy ➜ 使いにやる
• messenger; bearer; errand boy; errand girl
• familiar spirit ➜ 使い魔

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• use; usage; user; trainer; tamer; charmer - often read as づかい when used as a suffix ➜ 魔法使い

noun:

• bloodworm (Halla okadai, species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait) ➜ 揺蚊
• red mite (Trombicula akamushi); chigger mite; harvest mite ➜ 恙虫

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

noun:

• science (inc. mathematics, medicine, etc.); natural science ➜ 文科
• science department (university); science course
• science (as a school subject)

noun:

• namahage; folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as them on New Year's Eve and frighten children)

noun:

• funori; glue plant; marine alga of the genus Gloiopeltis
• funori; glue used as sizing for textiles