noun:

• parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)

noun:

• people who study or work while listening to the radio (or watching television, etc.)

noun:

• agreement used to prevent unauthorized or faked divorce by couples in Japan in the future

noun:

• yellow dog contract (employment contract which forbids the employee to join a labor union)

godan ~る verb:

• to fabricate (stories) (based on alleged behaviour of the Asahi newspaper); to make up - slang - humorous term

noun:

• soot-colored bamboo (coloured)
• bamboo duster (with the leaves still attached at one end) ➜ すす払い

noun:

• territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.)
• countryside - archaism

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:

• single-tiered gate with eight secondary pillars supporting the four main central pillars

expression / ichidan verb:

• to able to enter the New Year (i.e. have work finished, debts paid, etc.)

noun:

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

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:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• Nebrius; genus of a single species of nurse shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae

noun:

• Mitsukurina (genus of only living species of goblin shark in the family Mitsukurinidae)

noun:

• Pseudocarcharias (sole genus of the family Pseudocarchariidae containing one species of crocodile shark)

noun:

• Australian swellshark (Cephaloscyllium laticeps, species of catshark which inhabits the continental shelf of southern Australia)

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:

• the five fundamental seasonings used in Japanese cooking: (in order) sugar, salt, vinegar, soy sauce, miso

noun:

• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) - obscure term ➜ 寝殿造