expression:

• Dislike China, Hate Korea; publishing genre of anti-Chinese and Korean books and magazines

noun:

• fact; (a) truth
• realistic portrayal of an ordinary event (by a wise man) ［じつごと］ - in kabuki

noun:

• food mall; restaurant area (of a department store, airport, etc.); restaurant floor

noun:

• pseudo-foreign company; company based abroad but whose main country of business is Japan - Law term ➜ 外国会社

noun:

• checking of a text (usu. translation) by a native speaker - From English "native check"

noun:

• small amount of money (to buy sandals or cover travel expenses); small farewell gift

noun:

• custom of having toddlers step on a sticky rice cake on their first birthday

noun:

• hanakkori (Brassica napus cv. Hanakkori); hybrid of choy sum and broccoli invented in Yamaguchi prefecture

noun:

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

noun:

• fitness training; development of physical strength; building stamina; keeping up one's fitness

noun:

• route for a date; course of activities for dating couples - From English "date course"

expression:

• birds of a feather flock together; don't mix your horses with your cows - proverb

noun:

• challenging members of a dojo to a fight and demanding money upon winning

expression / noun:

• empty eyes; thousand-yard stare; blank glaze; expressionless look; eyes of a dead fish [literal] - idiom

noun:

• lump; mass; bundle; clump; clod; cluster
• group; crowd
• embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification

noun / ~する noun:

• advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; briefing session
• overlap (of a coat, etc.)
• making something match exactly - archaism

noun:

• scale (of fish, snake, etc.)
• serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))

pronoun:

• we; us
• I; me - archaism
• you (referring to a group of one's equals or inferiors) - archaism

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• stinging; smarting; tingling; burning - onomatopoeia
• on edge; nervous; tense - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• ripping; peeling; tearing - onomatopoeia
• shrill sound of a whistle - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• quivering; trembling - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• being lost for words; becoming speechless
• jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables) ➜ 五言絶句・七言絶句

noun:

• Alice band; horseshoe-shaped hairband made of metal or plastic (often covered with cloth) - named after a character in Tolstoy's novel "Resurrection" - From Russian "Katyusha"
• Katyusha rocket launcher (Soviet)

noun:

• long, narrow card on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); strip of paper
• thin rectangle - abbreviation ➜ 短冊形

adjectival noun / noun:

• thoughtless; indiscreet; lacking in common sense; rashness; betraying one's lack of judgment (judgement); absurd; undignified; compromising; disgraceful

suffix:

• care of (e.g. address on letter); c/o

noun:

• encouragement; bringing around; resuscitation ［きつけ］
• stimulant; tonic; restorative ［きつけ］ - abbreviation ➜ 気付け薬

noun:

• stall-keeper (esp. at a festival); street vendor; huckster; faker; hawker; seller of unreliable merchandise