noun:

• hostel; dormitory
• bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 律令制

noun:

• background; scenery; backdrop; setting; circumstance; context
• backing; support (from behind the scenes)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• exactly; precisely; punctually; on the dot - onomatopoeia
• closely; tightly; (fitting) perfectly - onomatopoeia
• properly; without fail - onomatopoeia

noun / suffix noun:

• kind; sort; type; class; genus; order; family
• similar example; parallel; the like

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving the mound; being knocked out - Baseball term ➜ 登板
• resigning from a role or position

noun / ~の noun:

• Koran; Qur'an; Quran; the Islamic holy book - From Arabic "kuran"

noun:

• beach; water's edge
• coastline; national border; before entering the country

noun:

• semicircle; hemicycle; half globe

~する noun:

• to go halfway round (e.g. the earth)

noun:

• peafowl (incl. the male peacock, female peahen, and young peachick)

noun / suffix noun / ~の noun:

• purveyor (esp. to the government, Imperial Household, etc.)

noun:

• civilization and enlightenment; Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era (Westernisation) - four character idiom

noun:

• embankment (for road, railway, etc.); raising the ground level; fill

noun:

• on-the-job training

noun:

• each paying for his own account; sharing the expenses; Dutch treat - four character idiom ➜ 割り勘

noun:

• licensed trade between Japan and Ming-dynasty China during the Muromachi period

noun:

• the five precepts (prohibitions against killing, theft, sexual misconduct, lying and intemperance) - Buddhism term

noun:

• puppeteer; puppet player
• wirepuller; string-puller; man behind the scenes ［かいらいし］

noun:

• unrecognized genius; exceptional person hidden among the masses
• reclining dragon

adverb:

• from afar; over a great distance; all the way

noun:

• letters-to-the-editor column; readers' section
• space for correspondence, messages, etc.

noun:

• proximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the speaker, i. e., kore, koko, kochira) - Linguistics term

noun:

• era during the 1950s dominated by grand champions Tochinishiki and Wakanohana I - Sumo term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop the opponent by pressing one's head into his chest - Sumo term

noun:

• mythical ball inside the anus that is sought after by kappa

noun:

• formal meeting (committee, etc.); session
• this (the aforementioned, our) association (society, organisation)