expression:

• don't miss it; stay tuned; coming soon; look forward to it

noun:

• Edo-period realm of the Japanese (as opposed to the Ainu) in southern Hokkaido ➜ 蝦夷地【えぞち】

expression:

• not knowing what to do with the time one has on one's hand - unorthodox form ➜ 間が持てない

expression / adjective:

• knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things ➜ 要領がいい【ようりょうがいい】

noun:

• small amount of money (to buy sandals or cover travel expenses); small farewell gift

noun:

• passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• food desert; area where it is difficult to buy food

noun:

• former Christian (forced to apostatize during the Edo period); fallen Christian

noun / ~する noun:

• helping a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たない, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たず, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】・めどが立たない

noun:

• ground to ground

noun:

• door-to-door

~の noun:

• air-to-air

~の noun:

• surface-to-surface

noun:

• house to house

noun:

• face-to-face

noun:

• face to face - IT term

noun / ~の noun:

• point-to-point - IT term

noun:

• end-to-end - IT term

noun:

• many-to-many ➜ 一対多

noun / ~する noun:

• changing household registry; transfer (e.g. of one's name in the register)
• transferring to a different team - Sports term

noun:

• last moment; eleventh hour - idiom
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period - orig. meaning

pronoun:

• we; us
• I; me - archaism
• you (referring to a group of one's equals or inferiors) - archaism

noun / suffix noun:

• training; education; upbringing

noun:

• stocking up; laying in
• preparation (e.g. ingredients)
• girl studying to become a geisha