noun:

• Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

noun:

• mother's body (esp. when pregnant or after giving birth)
• parent body; parent organization; base; basis; nucleus

expression:

• there is no way that ... (expresses speaker's belief that something is impossible)
• easy; simple

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to draw (the winning ticket)
• to apply; to compare; to put (oneself in someone's position) ➜ 当てはめる

noun:

• ozeki wrestler's attempt to reach the rank of yokozuna; being eligible for promotion to yokozuna - Sumo term ➜ 横綱【よこづな】・大関【おおぜき】

noun:

• peak oil (date when the peak of the world's petroleum production rate is reached)

expression:

• in that case; (might not be what was expected or hoped for but) if that's the case

noun:

• Naude's rubble goby (Trimma naudei, an Indo-West Pacific fish species); rubble dwarfgoby; red pygmy-goby

interjection:

• excuse me; pardon me; used when visiting someone else's house to ask to be shown inside - used by samurai - archaism

noun:

• gran turismo; GT; high performance car(s) - From Italian

noun / ~する noun:

• sympathy vomiting; vomiting due to the sight or the smell of another person's vomit

noun:

• Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures
• Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - From Chinese "mianma" ➜ 支那竹

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - sensitive ➜ 麺媽

noun:

• nailist; someone whose occupation is to cut any type of nail, apply artificial nails (or "nail art") and care for nails

noun:

• any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)

noun:

• milk shark (Rhizoprionodon acutus, species of requiem shark found in the eastern Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific) ➜ 平頭

noun:

• rice gruel with diced sweet potatoes
• gruel with ivy broth and finely minced Japanese yam served at large Imperial banquets

noun:

• Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links - Buddhism term

noun:

• normal style of writing; modern Japanese text
• text written in literary style with mixed kanji and kana (until the Taisho era)

noun:

• Persian speedwell (Veronica persica); large field speedwell; bird's-eye speedwell; birdeye speedwell; winter speedwell

noun:

• Persian speedwell (Veronica persica); large field speedwell; bird's-eye speedwell; birdeye speedwell; winter speedwell ➜ 大犬の陰嚢

noun:

• Russian tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii); Horsfield's tortoise; Central Asian tortoise; steppe tortoise; four-toed tortoise

noun / ~する noun:

• emperor's reply; reply to the emperor