noun:

• words you can't say on TV or radio; taboo words banned from broadcasts ➜ 放送禁止用語

noun:

• type of hanging scroll (made from paper of approx. 130cm x 30cm in size)

noun:

• over-the-counter drug; medication bought directly from the drugstore without a prescription ➜ 売薬

noun:

• deep bathtub with a water-heating tank; bathtub heated from below ➜ すいふろ

noun:

• small boat used for unloading goods from a large anchored boat (Edo period); lighter ➜ 瀬取り船

adverb:

• from now on; in the future; hereafter; ahead of us; down the road

noun:

• wedge marks in stone (usu. remaining from stone-splitting, now used for visual effect) - obscure term ➜ 矢【や】

noun:

• generation of students educated under the "pressure-free" system (from the late 1970s onward) ➜ ゆとり教育【ゆとりきょういく】

noun:

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

noun:

• Brexit; withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

noun:

• backslapping; a smile and a tap on the shoulder [literal]
• backslapper; someone who smiles and gives you a slap on the shoulder; someone who wins people over

noun:

• proportional representation system in which both party and individual votes are cast, seats are distributed amongst parties by proportion of vote obtained, and candidates are elected in descending order of number of votes obtained ➜ 拘束名簿式比例代表制

noun:

• female announcer; woman who makes public announcements (e.g. from an election campaign truck)

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］

noun:

• doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra) - Buddhism term
• spiritualism (in philosophy) ➜ 唯物

noun:

• allotted rice field (ritsuryo system); land distributed to all citizens from which yields were taxed by the government - archaism

adverb:

• straight (from one place to another); going right onto; on the way; simultaneously; incidentally; directly; at once

noun:

• kabusecha; mild green tea which has been lightly screened from sunlight for 1-3 weeks before picking ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】

noun:

• child from an earlier wife ➜ 後腹【あとばら】
• preceding one's master into death by committing ritual suicide (seppuku) ［さきばら］ ➜ 追い腹

noun:

• half and half; half-and-half

noun:

• variant (in a manuscript or book); part of a text that differs from other versions

noun:

• aftercare; care for patients after discharge from hospital - Medicine term
• after-sales service - From English "after care" ➜ アフターサービス

noun / adjectival noun:

• practice of mixing things normally kept separate; mixture

noun:

• dish of noodles, seafood, vegetables (from Nagasaki)

noun / ~の noun:

• aliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature

noun:

• match-up between wrestlers from different divisions who will probably 'switch' divisions in new ranking - Sumo term