noun:

• Lingchi; Leng Tch'e; slow torture by slicing off parts of the body

noun:

• Malta fever (variety of brucellosis caused by the bacteria Brucella melitensis)

noun:

• schistosomiasis japonica (form of bilharzia caused by the Oriental blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum) ➜ 日本住血吸虫

noun:

• schistosomiasis japonica (form of bilharzia caused by the Oriental blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum) - obscure term ➜ 日本住血吸虫症

noun:

• Law for the Protection of Personal Information Retained by Independent Administrative Institutions (2003)

noun:

• way of sitting by placing both knees on the ground and standing upright

adverb:

• gradually; by degrees - obscure term ➜ 段々・漸次
• the sight of a tall soaring rock - obscure term
• crying; weeping - obscure term

noun:

• female medium who summons spirits by sounding the string of a catalpa bow ➜ 巫女【みこ】・口寄せ

noun:

• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

noun:

• racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence - abbreviation ➜ 民事介入暴力

noun:

• biopower; Foucault's term for the regulation by modern states of their subjects

noun:

• eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness) - Buddhism term

pronoun:

• that way (direction distant from the speaker, close to the listener) ➜ 何方【どちら】・此方【こちら】・彼方【あちら】
• there (place distant from the speaker, close to the listener)
• that one (something close to the listener)
• you; your family; your company
• that person (someone close to the listener)

adverbial noun:

• just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that

noun:

• orca (Orcinus orca); killer whale; grampus
• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being) ［しゃち］ - abbreviation ➜ 鯱【しゃちほこ】

noun:

• Thompson's surgeonfish (Acanthurus thompsoni, species of Indo-Pacific tang whose Indian Ocean population lacks the white caudal fin of the Pacific variety)

noun:

• Azuma coat; type of coat worn over a kimono; popular in the middle of the Meiji era

noun:

• reading classical Chinese aloud without trying to understand the meaning
• reading a kanji compound using the Japanese pronunciation of each of its characters

noun:

• bottom of the sleeve - archaism
• height of the sleeve (of traditional Japanese clothing)
• secret; secret bribe ➜ 袖の下

noun / ~する noun:

• waxing and waning of the moon; phase of the moon - Astronomy term ➜ 盈虧
• rising and falling (of fortune)

noun:

• secretary-general; general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of the Democratic Republic of North Korea and the People's Republic of China) ➜ 主席

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• (subject to the) cool light breeze in early summer ➜ 薫風

expression:

• sharp eyes and ears used for collecting information far and wide; having the acumen and shrewd discernment gained by widely-collected information; being well-versed on a subject; books which broaden our knowledge - four character idiom

noun / expression:

• one-track mind; person who always acts the same or says the same thing (esp. person who always cracks the same kind of jokes) - humorous term - From English "very special one pattern"

noun:

• collar; lapel; neckband; neck
• nape of the neck; scruff of the neck