expression / noun:

• second oil crisis (1979) ➜ オイルショック

noun:

• Great Dark Spot (on Neptune)

noun:

• (one's) favourite food; (one's) favorite food

noun:

• third person - Linguistics term

noun:

• substitute recipient - IT term

expression:

• era in which university places outnumber university applicants; era of declining enrollment

noun / ~する noun:

• ghost-writing

noun / ~する noun:

• heavy loss

noun:

• great writer; major writer

expression / noun:

• cheap, malt-free beer-like alcoholic beverage

noun:

• banquet on the occasion of the first ceremonial offering of rice by the newly-enthroned emperor ➜ 大嘗祭

noun:

• kitchenware

noun:

• type-2 adjective (i.e. one that uses "shiku" conjugation) - obscure term - Linguistics term ➜ シク活用

noun:

• phase II study; phase II trial

noun:

• Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum

noun:

• type I carriers - IT term

noun:

• great disaster; calamity ➜ 小難

noun / ~する noun:

• payment for another; payment by proxy
• paying in kind; paying with a substitute

expression:

• the greater embraces the less; better too big than too small - proverb

noun:

• first ceremonial offering of rice by newly-enthroned Emperor ➜ 新嘗祭

expression / noun:

• third party beneficiary contract - Law term

noun:

• proxy

noun:

• serious accident; major incident

noun:

• colonoscope; colonoscopy

noun:

• Daion; one of the eight gods of the koyomi ➜ 八将神