noun:

• queen of the Andes (Puya raimondii); titanka; puya de Raimondi

noun:

• the four most important tournaments in a particular sport; grand slam tournaments; majors

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

expression:

• it's the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan's fault; LDP-blamer - from 自民が ..; used to mock critics of the LDP - slang - derogatory term ➜ 自民党

pre-noun adjectival:

• next; the next

noun:

• The Gambia; Gambia

noun / ~する noun:

• guidance; leading (the way); showing around
• information; notice; notification
• announcement (of one's arrival)
• invitation
• acquaintance; knowledge

noun / ~する noun:

• unemployed person - colloquialism
• vagabond; floater; vagrant - colloquialism

noun:

• day labourer, esp. on the docks ［風太郎］

noun:

• elder statesman; doyen; old-timer; authority
• Genro (member of a pre-WWII body that informally advised the emperor)

noun:

• teasing; chaffing; raillery; ridicule; jeering

noun / ~の noun:

• merely asking the price; just looking at goods; window-shopping; browsing

adverb:

• in general; generally; mostly; roughly; largely; mainly; on the whole; by and large

noun:

• gist; point; main idea

noun:

• traditional square chair with armrests and a torii-shaped back (used by the emperor, etc. during ceremonies)

expression:

• even the prosperous inevitably decay; sic transit gloria mundi; all that's fair must fade - from the Humane King Sutra - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection

noun / ~する noun:

• secluding oneself in the mountains; undertaking ascetic practices at a mountain temple
• retreat; off-site meeting

noun:

• photo booth that prints out cards and stickers of the resulting photograph, which are then traded among friends - abbreviation - From English "print club"

noun:

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

noun:

• Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)

noun:

• postcards associated with Respect-for-the-Aged Day, and sold every year starting in September - From English "heart mail"

noun:

• soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl

noun:

• one country, two systems (Chinese policy allowing for the communist mainland and capitalist areas such as Hong Kong)

noun:

• refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month ➜ 田遊び

noun:

• starfish; sea star; asteroid; any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea
• northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)

noun:

• Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))

noun:

• Yagiri No Watashi (ferry that has been taking passengers across the Edo river for nearly 400 years)