noun:

• companies exploiting debtors by forcing them to make expensive credit card purchases and buying the purchases at a fraction of the price

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to wait for a long time; to wait and wait; to eagerly await

noun:

• value honor; round wind, seat wind, and dragon tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 圏風牌・門風牌・三元牌
• winning hand containing one kong (or pung) of a value honor - Mahjong term ➜ 役【やく】

noun:

• area of a soccer pitch between the penalty area and the centre ring (of tactical importance) - Sports term - From English "vital area"

noun:

• combined liquor store and bar; combined off-license and pub (licence)
• drinking alcohol while standing in the shop

noun:

• Shinsengumi; shogunate police and military force located in Kyoto and dedicated to suppressing anti-shogunate activities (Edo period)

noun:

• Columbian exchange; widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, disease, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds

noun:

• discreet and well-advised judgment; wise and mature judgment; making judgment with prudence - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• heavy, thick, long, and big (products, esp. industrial); massive and heavy; heavy (industry) - four character idiom Antonym: 軽薄短小

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to separate and discard; to sieve and sort; to wash out (impurities, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• little four winds; winning hand consisting of three kongs or pungs of winds and a pair of the fourth wind - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• zip fastener; zipper; zip - poss. from 巾着 (きんちゃく)
• chuck (device for holding a workpiece in a lathe or a tool in a drill)

noun:

• life and death
• samsara (cycle of death and rebirth) ［しょうし・しょうじ］ - Buddhism term
• death ［しょうし・しょうじ］

noun / ~する noun:

• reaching a decision by using a circular letter; reaching a decision via a document circulated to all employees

noun:

• forming a four-of-a-kind by adding a self-drawn tile to an open three-of-a-kind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 加槓・槓

noun:

• star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)
• offender; perpetrator - police slang - slang
• star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot
• circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star)
• bullseye
• one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate ➜ 九星
• small dot; spot
• point; score - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• lighting a torch; lighting up a lamp

noun:

• person who leads a funeral procession with a torch

noun:

• temple festival; fair; fete day; day related to a particular deity and thought to bring divine blessing to those to celebrate it

noun:

• legendary monster resembling a flying squirrel
• Japanese giant flying squirrel (Petaurista leucogenys) - orig. meaning ➜ ムササビ
• Japanese dish prepared with cooked fish and chicken - esp. 野衾 - Food term

noun:

• mountain forest; forest on a mountain; montane forest
• mountains and forest

noun / ~する noun:

• describing; comparing; expressing figuratively; modifying; qualifying (e.g. an adjective qualifying a noun)

noun:

• form; figure; condition; state
• personal appearance; one's face and figure; looks

noun:

• pitch; tone; key
• time; tempo

noun / suffix:

• mood; tendency; style

noun:

• tax paid in kind (ritsuryo period); first a tax on rice fields and households, then on individuals - also 徴 - archaism

noun:

• holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backward like a shrimp (in kabuki, represents being overwhelmed by someone's power)

noun:

• man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryo system)

noun:

• awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something