noun:

• physician in private practice
• town doctor; doctor who served the townspeople (as opposed to the emperor, a daimyo, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• life in a foreign country; living abroad

noun:

• snap-in - IT term

noun:

• in and out movement (esp. during intercourse); pistoning - colloquialism

noun:

• winning hand with at least one terminal tile in each set and no honor tiles - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ ジュンチャンタイヤオチュウ

noun:

• withered chrysanthemum in winter

expression:

• late in autumn; late in fall

noun:

• male carer, esp. in a nursery school

noun:

• (man's) father-in-law; father of one's wife

expression:

• things don't work that well in the real world; things seldom go as one wishes; that is expecting too much; it won't be that easy - idiom

noun:

• standing panel used in Kansai-area rakugo to hide the performer's legs from view; knee-hider [literal]

noun:

• overhead throw in judo

noun / ~する noun:

• writing with the brush in one's mouth

noun:

• foreword; preface
• affidavit; written confession (of a commoner in the Edo period)

noun:

• caring for one's parents in return

noun:

• proportional representation system in which both party and individual votes are cast, seats are distributed amongst parties by proportion of vote obtained, and candidates are elected in descending order of number of votes obtained ➜ 拘束名簿式比例代表制

noun:

• humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ

expression / noun:

• a thorn in one's side; a pain in the butt (often someone higher in rank, ability, etc.); nuisance; something in the way - idiom

noun:

• paper used in pre-bout rituals - Sumo term

expression:

• in public; in company

expression / ichidan verb:

• to discuss in the same terms; to treat equally

noun:

• contradictio in adjecto; contradiction between an adjective and the noun it modifies (wooden iron, hot ice, etc.)

noun:

• (the two sides) being evenly-matched in influence or power - four character idiom

noun:

• phone in request (e.g. calling a radio station to request a song)

noun:

• question and answer in writing; written reply to a written question

noun:

• mushroom that springs up in the morning and withers by night; "something short-lived" [figurative] - archaism