noun:

• black silk or paper triangle worn over the forehead (usu. worn by children)

noun:

• medical treatment at one's own expense; treatment not covered by health insurance

expression:

• dripping with sweat; doing something by the sweat of one's brow

noun / ~する noun:

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

noun:

• drastic improvement of appearance via makeup; suddenly looking better by using makeup

noun:

• winning hand formed by drawing a replacement tile after declaring a kong - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 嶺上牌

noun:

• persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story - colloquialism ➜ 泣き落とし

noun:

• love that is motivated by job-hunting; using sex to get a job - abbreviation ➜ リクルートラブ

ichidan verb:

• to cook (esp. grains such as rice, by boiling); to finish cooking

noun:

• Japanese war tuba; pre-radar acoustic locator used by the Imperial Japanese Army

noun:

• ranking of web pages by number of times viewed

noun:

• Amitabha triad; image of Amitabha Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta - Buddhism term

noun:

• Bhaishajyaguru triad; image of Bhaishajyaguru Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Suryaprabha and Candraprabha - Buddhism term

noun:

• ball (for sport, games, etc.)
• kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan ［鞠・毬］ ➜ 蹴鞠

noun / ~する noun:

• capture (of enemy territory); taking (by storm); conquest; attack; assault
• defeating (an opponent)
• attacking (a problem) strategically

noun:

• Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku) ➜ 浄瑠璃・文楽

noun:

• infectious disease which by law a physician must report to the authorities within 24 hours of diagnosis

noun:

• surface rights (i.e. the right to build a house, etc. on land owned by another); superficies

noun:

• player put on starting list to be replaced by another when the opponent's pitcher is known

noun / ~する noun:

• killing oneself by jumping (e.g. from a tall building); plunging to one's death

noun:

• diseases specified by the Japanese government as being worrisome, having no known treatment and of unknown causes

noun:

• "New Nessie" (unidentified sea creature discovered by Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru in 1977)

noun:

• crime committed together by two or more people (in which each is known as a co-principal)

noun:

• Promide (product name for bromides released by Marubell); bromide (publicity photograph of a movie star, entertainer, etc.) ➜ ブロマイド

noun:

• Hanlon's razor ("Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity") - obscure term ➜ オッカムの剃刀