noun:

• stock exchange member who facilitates trading by matching buy and sell orders (similar to an NYSE specialist) - Ōsaka dialect ➜ 才取会員

noun:

• block booking; system where distributors sell multiple films to cinemas as a unit ➜ フリーブッキング

noun:

• Japanese huchen (Hucho perryi) (salmonoid fish found in Hokkaido that grows up to 1.5 meters)

noun:

• spotted unicornfish (Naso maculatus, species of Pacific tang found from Japan and Lord Howe Island to Hawaii)

noun:

• threadfin scat (Rhinoprenes pentanemus, species of Western Pacific spadefish found from Papua New Guinea to northern Australia)

noun:

• humpback batfish (Platax batavianus, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found from Madagascar to Indonesia and Australia)

expression / adjective:

• (so ashamed or embarrassed that) one does not know where to put oneself; feeling out of place ➜ 身の置き所がない

noun:

• Oriental butterflyfish (Chaetodon auripes, species found mostly from Japan to Taiwan)

noun:

• evacuation of school children (from major cities to more rural areas, esp. during late World War II)

expression / adverbial noun:

• more than one can possibly use; countless (e.g. examples); (money) to burn; rolling in (cash)

noun:

• Mercurialis leiocarpa (species of mercury whose leaves can be used to produce an indigo dye)

noun:

• broad-rimmed topless cap worn (esp. by young children) to prevent shampoo getting into one's eyes - trademark of Pip Co., Ltd. - From English "shampoo hat"

noun:

• street where many shops and businesses are closed (e.g. due to an economic slump)

noun:

• client separation; block relay; facility to stop intercommunication between devices sharing a router - IT term - From English "privacy separator"

noun:

• mochi received from one's parents after giving birth (trad. eaten in miso soup to improve lactation)

noun:

• practice of grouping students by popularity according to their appearance, interests, personality, etc. - From English "school caste"

noun:

• historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Emishi
• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) ［えぞ］ ➜ 蝦夷地

noun:

• vine; bine; tendril; runner
• bow; temple arm; sidepiece; lug arm; earpiece; part of a pair of glasses that goes over the ear
• connections; contacts; influence; financial supporter

expression:

• spoiling someone's work; useless effort; laboring in vain; labouring in vain; if a peasant sows seeds, the crows will dig them up [literal]

noun:

• capsicum (Capsicum annuum, esp. the cultivated chili peppers); chili pepper (chile, chilli); cayenne; red pepper ➜ ピーマン
• shichimi pepper - abbreviation ➜ 七味唐辛子

noun / ~する noun:

• open-air tea ceremony
• aristocrat taking a break during a trip in a palanquin
• something standing in the open

noun:

• soup served at the end of a traditional Japanese dinner; last soup served in a Kaiseki course (often miso soup) ➜ 会席料理

noun:

• ridge-tailed monitor (Varanus acanthurus, species of monitor lizard found throughout the arid northern regions of Australia); spiny-tailed monitor ➜ リッジテールモニター

noun:

• station melody; departure melody; melody sounded on a station platform just before the doors of a train are closed

noun:

• mock Buddhist sutra; type of fast-paced humorous singing mimicking the chanting of a Buddhist sutra, usually with lyrics satirizing current events; ahodarakyō - pun on あほだら and 陀羅尼経 ➜ あほだら