noun:

• quick response code (2-dimensional bar code commonly used by Japanese mobile phones to link to URLs); QR code

noun:

• collective goods (i.e. goods or services such as parks, highways, etc. which could be supplied privately, but are usually provided by the government) ➜ 公共財

noun:

• red headband (worn by lower rank officers) - archaism

noun:

• lunar tide (tides caused by the moon)

noun:

• Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927)
• Rape of Nanking (1937); Nanking Massacre ➜ 南京大虐殺

noun:

• natural person (e.g. one unspoilt by civilization, civilisation)

noun:

• withdrawal of loan credit (e.g. by a bank); retraction of credit; insistence on repayment

noun:

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

expression / noun:

• red hakama (worn by miko or noblewomen at court) ➜ 紅の袴【くれないのはかま】

noun:

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

noun:

• woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)

noun:

• Yokoyama Shinto (Edo-period Shinto sect promoted by Masae Yokoyama)

noun:

• burning a mountain (by design)

expression / godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to drive to death (e.g. by suicide); to cause to die ➜ 追いやる【おいやる】

noun:

• Ama no Ukihashi (the heavenly floating bridge; by which gods are said to descend from the heavens to the earth) - archaism

noun:

• not covered (by); not subject (to)

noun:

• maser (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation)

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to be annoyed (by); to be offended (at); to be irritated (with)

noun:

• fortress (surrounded by a wall, moat, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• involving the audience (by talking to them, bringing them on stage, etc.)

noun:

• yusho (disease caused by PCB ingestion)

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 17.5cm by 25cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】

noun:

• stria (carved out by a glacier, etc.)

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 12.5cm by 17.5cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】
• late Edo-period novelette depicting life in the red-light district ➜ 洒落本

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to have one's heart touched (by something very moving)