noun:

• society for the study of manga - abbreviation ➜ 漫画研究会
• manga club ➜ 漫画研究会

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• expected to arrive (occur) in the near future

temporal noun:

• at the worst time; at worst; at the worst level

expression:

• capitalizing on the fame of a parent; riding a parent's coat-tails

noun:

• the Communist camp

noun:

• the Third Reich

noun:

• the rounds of tradesmen going door to door
• route man; door-to-door tradesman; order taker; order-taking
• thief taker; secret policeman ➜ 岡っ引き

noun:

• coach without a special assignment within the Sumo Association - Sumo term

noun:

• The Yalta Agreement (secret American-British-Soviet agreement wherein the Soviets agreed to attack Japan within three months of the German surrender: Feb. 11, 1945) ➜ ヤルタ会談

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

expression:

• Honesty is the best policy; Honesty pays - idiom

noun:

• state of the art report - IT term

noun:

• pachinko machine based on the "arrange ball" game ➜ アレンジボール

expression:

• the worst goes foremost; those one eagerly await will not arrive first - proverb

noun:

• type of commission system in the book industry in Japan

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to remove one's shirt thus revealing the skin; to remove the upper part of one's garments
• to work with great effort ➜ 片肌脱ぐ・一肌脱ぐ

noun:

• shopping street in the precincts of a shrine (temple)

noun:

• rule over the whole country

noun:

• the poor

noun:

• guaranteeing information accessibility for the disabled

noun:

• the "a" column of the Japanese syllabary table (a, i, u, e, o)

noun:

• tutelary deities of the hearth

noun:

• staff at a horse changing station during the ritsuryo period - archaism

expression:

• through the grapevine; from a little bird; from tidings on the wind [literal]

expression:

• what the hell are you saying? - Kansai dialect