noun:

• new Zaibatsu (formed after the Meiji period) ➜ 財閥

noun:

• baby talk (used in talking to young children)

noun:

• yellow jersey (awarded to the winner of the Tour de France, etc.) - From French "maillot jaune"

noun:

• winning by opponent's resignation (in the game of go)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to decline (in prosperity); to become deserted; to become desolate
• to taper off (of a sound)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to unseat someone (in an election); to defeat a sitting member

noun:

• way of throwing (esp. in baseball); throwing technique; pitching technique - Sports term

noun:

• Taisha-kyo (sect of Shinto; renamed Izumo Oyashiro-kyo in 1951) - obsolete term ➜ 出雲大社教

noun:

• dazaifu (under the ritsuryo system, governmental office with jurisdiction over Kyushu, Iki and Tsushima) ➜ 律令制

expression / adjective:

• difficult to be (in a place); not feeling like staying ➜ 辛い【づらい】

noun / ~する noun:

• flowing down (e.g. water in a river); downward flow

noun:

• stick used to drive off birds (during the New Year's procession) - archaism ➜ 鳥追

noun:

• moyamoya disease (rare, progressive cerebrovascular disorder caused by blocked arteries in the basal ganglia)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (with a) vomiting sound - onomatopoeia

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いきじめ］ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】

noun:

• Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3rd, the supposed day of his death)

noun:

• unexpectedly strong snowstorm (for the region, etc.); sudden snowstorm ➜ ゲリラ

noun:

• light distribution (e.g. in candle-power or candela); luminous intensity distribution; spatial distribution of luminous intensity

noun:

• cow spot pattern (as on the hide of a cow); cow-skin pattern

noun:

• weather resistance (e.g. in building material)

noun:

• Pulitzer (as in Pulitzer Prize)

noun:

• class library (as in C++) - IT term

noun:

• Hypogaleus (genus whose sole member is the blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark of the family Triakidae)

noun:

• distilled alcohol (sometimes added in the production of sake)

noun:

• generation comprising those who were children during WW2 (in Japan)