noun:

• unimportant piece of news; news unrelated to major events or pressing social conditions - colloquialism

noun:

• wearing next to the skin (e.g. shoes without socks, trousers without underwear)

noun:

• single chopstick stuck upright into the bowl of rice offered to the deceased at their funeral

noun:

• sending off a customer (e.g. to the closest train station)
• sending customers (somebody's way)

noun:

• person oblivious to the fact they are irritating or inconveniencing others; pain in the neck; pest - colloquialism

noun:

• adding a product line or department to improve a store's performance - From English "line robbing"

noun:

• helicopter money; stimulating the economy by distributing newly printed money to consumers - Economics term

noun:

• warbler flying from a valley to a tree - orig. meaning ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• finding success in life ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• passing the palace examination ➜ 進士【しんし】

noun:

• writing from top to bottom
• writing without a pause
• translation of classical Chinese into Japanese - abbreviation ➜ 書き下し文

noun:

• ginjō sake; high-quality sake brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60% - abbreviation ➜ 吟醸酒

noun:

• side street (often parallel to a main street); back street; alley

noun / ~の noun:

• conveying the will of the governing to the governed; top-down (system) - four character idiom

noun:

• committing every evil; being given to evil ways; following the path of evil - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• resistance; opposition; standing up to
• reluctance; repulsion; repugnance
• resistance; drag; friction - Physics term
• electrical resistance - abbreviation ➜ 電気抵抗

noun:

• resistor - abbreviation ➜ 抵抗器

adjectival noun / noun:

• shock (psychological)

noun:

• shock (physical, mechanical)
• shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow) - Medicine term

noun / ~の noun:

• pension (esp. public servant's)

noun:

• a lord giving a land holding to a vassal - archaism ➜ 恩地

noun / ~の noun:

• this world; the present life (in contrast to the land of the dead)

noun:

• (over) a great distance; (a long journey (flight, voyage)) to (from) a faraway place - four character idiom

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• take the world by storm; to hold sway over the minds of the people

noun:

• Nansei Islands; Ryukyu Islands; chain of islands extending from southwestern Kyushu to northern Taiwan ➜ 琉球諸島

noun:

• pacifist constitution (often applied to the Japanese constitution); constitution which outlaws use of arms ➜ 日本国憲法

noun:

• snow guard (to prevent snow from sliding off of a roof); snow stop

noun:

• chemical reaction used to detect residue from gunshots
• gunpowder residue; gun shot residue; GSR - colloquialism

expression / noun:

• lost decade; decade of economic stagnation
• decade in Japan from 1992 to 2002

noun / ~する noun:

• scheme; device; scheming; devising; figuring out; coming up with; solving ingeniously
• dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)