expression / noun:

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

noun:

• thick voice; hoarse voice
• voice with a thick accent

interjection:

• uh-huh; mm-hmm

adverb / ~と adverb:

• with a moan; with a groan

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drink away one's money; to be a sot; to get wasted
• to drink someone under the table

noun:

• extreme reverence; deeply revered person
• the Emperor

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 12.5cm by 17.5cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】
• late Edo-period novelette depicting life in the red-light district ➜ 洒落本

noun:

• lingering snow ➜ 残雪
• snowfall at the end of the winter or the beginning of spring

noun:

• barracks; cantonment
• temporary lodging with roof but no walls (esp. for military exercises) - orig. meaning

noun:

• sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
• rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• combatant
• interested party in warfare; warring nation; belligerent

noun / ~する noun:

• buying up plots of land by force to resell at a large profit; land sharking
• raising the ground level (with fill)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to miss one's footing
• to be off the right track; to be on the wrong path

noun:

• writings on many different topics ➜ 雑書
• book that cannot be classified in any category

adverb / ~の noun:

• as a god
• as was done in the age of the gods

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to fold one's arms
• to link arms with someone

noun:

• puzzle ring; wire puzzle
• exercise where students link crossed hands in a circle and try working together and without letting go

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fail to earn a credit
• to fail to make the grade

noun / ~する noun:

• meddling; interfering

noun:

• choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】

adverb / ~と adverb:

• intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• in drops (e.g. of rain) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• various medicines; medical treatment
• supper in a Zen temple; rice porridge served for supper in a Zen temple

noun:

• paper, cloth, wood, etc. representation of a sacred object
• paper doll used in purification rites - Shintō term

noun / ~する noun:

• male coming of age ceremony
• for a woman to shave her eyebrows, dye her teeth and wear her hair in the marumage style after marrying (Edo period)

expression / adverb:

• I fear that it's likely that
• with all due respect

noun:

• celebration of a birth (usu. approx. one month after birth)
• gift at the birth of a child; baby gift

noun:

• kisslip cuttlefish (Sepia lycidas) ➜ 雷烏賊
• common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)