noun:

• unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items

noun:

• old sinner; elderly man-about-town; older person who enjoys free and easy lifestyle unfettered by social taboos - four character idiom

noun:

• eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Asomi, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi) - archaism - obscure term ➜ 八色の姓

noun:

• traditional work song of Hokkaido herring fishery workers, performed by school students in modern choreographed interpretations

noun:

• stock exchange member who facilitates trading by matching buy and sell orders (similar to an NYSE specialist) - Kantō dialect

noun:

• weight-loss diet accompanied by meticulous notes about when and what one has eaten - From English "recording diet" ➜ レコダイ

noun:

• allotted rice field (ritsuryo system); land distributed to all citizens from which yields were taxed by the government - archaism

noun:

• dyeing one's hair oneself (as opposed to having it done by a hairdresser) - From English "self colour"

noun:

• child from an earlier wife ➜ 後腹【あとばら】
• preceding one's master into death by committing ritual suicide (seppuku) ［さきばら］ ➜ 追い腹

noun / ~する noun:

• agitating other players in a multiplayer or online game by rapidly moving one's avatar left and right - abbr. of シャア専用ゲルググのダンス - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• criticism (by a teacher or coach, with commentary, especially at a poetry reading); review; critique

noun / ~する noun:

• (historical, in China) abdication by an emperor in favor (favour) of a more virtuous successor

noun:

• cushion ball; carom off the outfield wall by a batted ball - Baseball term

adverb:

• in general; on the whole; for the most part; by and large; almost all

noun:

• lecture (esp. special engagement by noted speaker); lecture meeting (event with one or more lectures)

noun:

• baby talk (e.g. "choo-choo" for train); words and speech patterns used by infants

noun:

• a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate - four character idiom

noun:

• day-by-day record of a patient's condition; diary written while ill in bed

noun:

• services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul - four character idiom

noun:

• euphoria experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work ➜ 五月病・六月病

noun:

• state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period

noun:

• distinctive body odor (odour) of the middle-aged and elderly (caused by the chemical nonenal) ➜ ノネナール

noun:

• brother complex; unnatural attachment to one's brother (esp. by his sister) - abbreviation ➜ ブラザーコンプレックス・シスコン
• black contemporary (music) - abbreviation ➜ ブラックコンテンポラリー

noun:

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

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking metal against stone) - obscure term