noun:

• focal point of a lens in front of the subject ➜ ピント

noun:

• type of sushi with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on the rice - Kansai dialect ➜ 五目寿司

noun:

• slip-guard (on one side of the body of a shamisen)

noun:

• attaching (of seaweed or seed oysters) to nets for the purpose of cultivation

noun:

• Thalassoma (genus of brightly colored fish of the wrasse family Labridae)

noun:

• Atelomycterus; genus of five species of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae

noun / ~する noun:

• verification of the authenticity of a document (e.g. by seal or handwriting) - obscure term

noun:

• Ephippus (genus of 2 species of spadefish in the family Ephippidae)

noun:

• Jataka; collection of texts on the early lives of Buddha (4th century BCE) - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit

noun:

• driving on the left side of the road; driving on the left-hand side of the road; left-hand side driving ➜ 右側通行

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to match (rhythm, speed, etc.)
• to join together; to unite; to combine; to add up
• to face; to be opposite (someone) ➜ 顔を合わせる
• to compare; to check with
• to cause to meet (e.g. an unpleasant fate) ➜ 遭う
• to place together; to connect; to overlap
• to mix; to combine
• to put blade to blade; to fight

adjectival noun / noun:

• dissatisfaction with the work (role) given to one; feeling oneself above the given work (role)
• not up to the task; (being) out of one's depth - colloquialism ➜ 力不足【ちからぶそく】

noun:

• western Japan; Japan west of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line, i.e. the Chūbu region and westward ➜ 糸魚川静岡構造線・東日本

noun:

• start; beginning; build up
• how well a pitcher pitches at the start of the game - Baseball term

noun:

• slipping one's hand beneath the opponent's arm and latching on to the underside of his belt - Sumo term

noun:

• countryside people (in town); visitor from the country; out-of-towner; country bumpkin (visiting the big city); yokel

noun:

• turban shell (any mollusc of the family Turbinidae, esp. the horned turban, Turbo cornutus)

noun:

• an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing ➜ 学園祭

noun:

• kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times ➜ 七変化【しちへんげ】
• the seven common disguises of ninja

noun:

• widow (one or more lines separated from the rest of the preceding passage by page or column break) - obscure term - IT term ➜ 分断前部

noun:

• orphan (one or more lines separated from the rest of the following passage by page or paragraph break) - obscure term - IT term ➜ 分断後部

noun:

• orangespot surgeonfish (Acanthurus olivaceus, species of tang found from the eastern Indian Ocean to the Pacific); orangeband surgeonfish

noun:

• Nasolamia (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose only member is the whitenose shark)

noun:

• Prionace (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the blue shark)

noun:

• Scoliodon (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the spadenose shark)