noun:

• Ministry of Culture (e.g. in China)

expression:

• seven vernal flowers (Java water dropwort, shepherd's purse, Jersey cudweed, common chickweed, Japanese nipplewort, turnip, and daikon) ➜ 秋の七草

noun:

• punch-style can opener (punches a round or V-shaped hole in a can of liquid)

noun:

• remaining lives (in video games)

noun:

• Shōwa Depression (Japanese part of the Great Depression); Showa Depression ➜ 世界大恐慌

noun:

• imperial edict to confer nobility titles (in ancient China)

noun:

• minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try to be reconciled (with); to take measures to bring about reconciliation

noun:

• power of finality (of a legal decision, e.g. when a case is dismissed with prejudice) - Law term

noun:

• departure (of the emperor, etc.) - honorific language Antonym: 着御

noun:

• Ezra (book of the Bible)

noun:

• first volume (in set); volume one; book one ➜ 下巻・中巻

noun:

• Copper Age (period in which metal tools started to be used alongside stone tools)

noun:

• (primarily in shogi or go) response; countermeasure; counter-measure

noun:

• punctuality (in reference to public transport); reliability

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be possible (in terms of time, money, etc.); to be able (to do); to fit (schedule, budget)

noun:

• English proficiency test (esp. the STEP test) - abbreviation ➜ 実用英語技能検定

ichidan verb:

• to writhe (in agony)

noun:

• PASMO (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train and bus ticket in the greater Tokyo region and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ スイカ

noun / ~する noun:

• reconciliation (with one's spouse, adopted child, etc.)

noun:

• pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

noun:

• Kōwa era (of the Southern Court) (1381.2.10-1384.4.28)

noun:

• whitecheek surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricans, species of tang from the Eastern Indian and Pacific Oceans)

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence)
• punctuation - abbreviation ➜ 句読点
• way of reading (esp. kanbun)

expression:

• (with verb stem) unless you do something