noun:

• large-scale, long-running TV series (esp. of period pieces produced by NHK) ➜ 大河小説

noun:

• women's volunteer corps; groups of young female workers organized on Japanese territory during WWII

noun:

• second life (esp. that of a retiree)
• SecondLife (online virtual world)

noun:

• Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni)

noun:

• Shudra; Sudra (member of India's worker caste)

noun:

• thin, dried strips of daikon soaked in vinegar and other flavorings

noun:

• Malayo-Polynesian (family of languages) ➜ オーストロネシア語族

expression:

• undesirable state brought about by (my) lack of virtue; feeling morally responsible; mea culpa - with an apologetic tone

noun:

• Japan - archaism ➜ 八洲
• eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke & Shimotsuke) ➜ 関八州

noun:

• Qing-dynasty system assigning equal numbers of Manchurians and Han Chinese to central government agencies

noun:

• common and low grade type of katsuobushi
• bamboo rod used during imperial exorcism ceremonies

noun:

• megapode (any bird of family Megapodiidae, incl. brush turkeys and mallee fowl); mound builder

expression:

• a man of virtue will naturally attract admirers; good wine speaks for itself - proverb

noun / suffix noun:

• nature (of a person or thing)
• that which does not change according to external influences - Buddhism term

noun:

• Edo-period school of Chinese medicine based on post-Jin and Yuan teachings ➜ 古医方

noun:

• chocolate given to a boy on Valentine's day out of genuine sentiment

noun / ~する noun:

• impressed (glued) gold or silver foil on traditional Japanese fabric
• type of noh costume

noun:

• Heterodontidae (family with one genus, Heterodontus, containing 9 living species of bullhead sharks)

noun:

• Stegostomatidae; family of Indo-Pacific carpet sharks containing a single species, Stegostoma fasciatum

noun:

• Pomacentridae; family containing about 360 species of primarily marine tropical damselfishes and clownfishes

noun:

• Monrovia doctorfish (Acanthurus monroviae, species of Eastern Atlantic tang found from southern Morocco to Angola)

noun:

• Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi, a large species of tarantula) ➜ ルブロンオオツチグモ

noun:

• juvenile Japanese sea perch (under two years of age and 25 cm in length) ➜ 鱸

noun:

• ninespine batfish (Zabidius novemaculeatus, species of Indo-Pacific spadefish found from Indonesia to northwestern Australia)

noun:

• Luvaridae; family containing one extant species of perciform fish similar to a surgeonfish