noun:

• area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line) (1940s-1956) ➜ 青線地帯

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

expression / godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to challenge (esp. in a lawsuit); to take on an opponent (in negotiations, contest, etc.)

noun:

• wooden mosaic work; parquetry; wooden mosaic (e.g. on a piece of furniture); marquetry; marqueterie

noun:

• number display
• caller ID (on telephones)

noun:

• drunk driving; driving under the influence (of alcohol); DUI; legal category based on blood alcohol content - Law term

noun:

• working on a day off (to make up for lost time, or to make an impression)

noun:

• one's mind; one's inner feelings; (a decision hinging on) how someone feels about it - four character idiom

noun:

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (United Nations, 1948)

noun:

• "day of the ghost" (an extremely auspicious day on the lunar calendar for everything but weddings) ➜ 暦注

noun:

• Kyoto's children ➜ 京童
• Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext ➜ 京童

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November) - archaism ➜ 酉の市

noun:

• lay ancestral hall; hall on temple grounds for holding mortuary tablets of lay parishioners
• small shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• motivating the troops on the battlefield with war drums and war cries - obscure term
• making an uproar - obscure term

noun:

• individual play; one-man effort; non-cooperation; playing on one's own; selfish play

noun:

• Trump Effect; impact on business of the election of Donald Trump as US president

adverb:

• about; roughly; approximately ➜ おおよそ
• generally; on the whole; as a rule
• completely; quite; entirely; altogether; totally; not at all (with neg. verb)

noun / ~の noun:

• outline; gist

noun:

• conduct; behaviour
• movements; gesture; one's carriage
• performance (on stage, etc.); dance; acting
• dance (in kabuki); dance play - abbreviation ➜ 所作事

expression:

• pleased to make your acquaintance (formal phrase used on first meeting someone to encourage them to remember you)

noun:

• projecting part (of a headland, etc.) ［出っ鼻］ ➜ 出鼻
• moment of departure; (on the) point of going out ➜ 出端
• outset; start; beginning ➜ 出端

noun:

• involuntary upgrade; operational upgrade; free upgrade to business or first class on an overbooked flight

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to borrow; to have a loan; to hire; to rent; to buy on credit

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to cling to; to stick to; to lie flat (e.g. on the ground)

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to whip; to lash; to give the rod; to spur on; to encourage

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to confute; to argue down; to persuade; to convince; to prevail on