noun:

• pillar of state

noun:

• battling to knock away the hands of one's opponent, in order to achieve an advantageous position - Sumo term

noun:

• field of alpine flowers

noun:

• type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap; wake-up sweets

noun:

• taking photographs for a volume at the request of a publisher
• photographs taken for a volume at the request of a publisher

noun:

• frame of a shoji (paper sliding-door)

expression:

• piling shame on top of shame

noun:

• nationwide consumption of local products ➜ 地産地消【ちさんちしょう】

noun:

• taking care of one's sexual urges; sexual gratification

noun:

• 66-odd provinces of old Japan; 60-odd states [literal]

noun:

• State of the Union message

expression / noun:

• game of go; playing go ➜ 碁

noun:

• rule allowing the clear winner of a bout to touch down first to avoid injury - Sumo term

noun:

• year of the ox

noun:

• date of execution (e.g. of a contract); agreement date (e.g. of a contract); entering date (e.g. into treaty)

noun:

• person in charge of public relations; PR manager

noun:

• unit of weight ~600g - archaism
• pound (unit of mass: 453.6g) - archaism

noun / counter:

• loaf (of bread)

noun:

• law of conservation of angular momentum - Physics term

noun:

• two runs of a television series - From English "two cours" ➜ クール

noun:

• nation's times of peace and war, rise and fall - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• oil crisis of 1973-74; first oil shock ➜ オイルショック

noun:

• disturbance of sleep; nuisance in the middle of the night

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan - sensitive

noun:

• day of the boar in the tenth month ➜ 亥の子
• mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校