noun / ~の noun / ~する noun:

• receiving; welcoming; going to meet - polite language ➜ 迎え

noun:

• final call; call of fate; approach of death

noun:

• forcing people who can't drink alcohol to drink alcohol - From English "alcohol harassment"

noun:

• Pacific spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus, species of Eastern Pacific spadefish found from California to Peru)

noun:

• handbra; pose using only one's hands to cover one's breasts

noun:

• side seating (to stage right in noh)
• centerstage right (noh)

noun:

• sukiyaki stock; stock mixed with soy sauce, mirin and sugar (used to flavor sukiyaki) - Food term ➜ 割り下

noun:

• vehicle larger than a light motor vehicle, and subject to automobile registration and tax ➜ 軽自動車

noun:

• industry law; law regulating a certain industry
• work one is obligated to carry out - archaism

noun:

• no overtime day; day which employees are not allowed to work overtime

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• fast-talking; always having another argument ready; not able to keep one's mouth shut; never at a loss for words ➜ 口の減らない

noun:

• bad deed which ultimately results in the creation of a good Buddhist - Buddhism term
• older person conducting a funeral service for a younger relative, in particular, a parent for a child

noun:

• Griffiths' pygmy-goby (Trimma griffithsi, found in the Indo-West Pacific); princess pygmy goby (Trimma marinae, found in Japan, New Guinea and Palau)

noun:

• joint venture of government and business; business venture financed jointly by the public and private sectors; semi-public sector; third sector [literal]

noun:

• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (1869-1871 CE) ［だんじょうだい］
• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• blue poetry ribbon card (in hanafuda)
• the three blue poetry ribbon cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• natural disaster reduction; reduction of the effects of a natural disaster

expression:

• sharp eyes and ears used for collecting information far and wide; having the acumen and shrewd discernment gained by widely-collected information; being well-versed on a subject; books which broaden our knowledge - four character idiom

noun:

• determined purpose
• an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought) - Buddhism term
• a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土宗

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom

noun:

• hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds) ➜ 下町・山手【やまて】
• place near the mountains ➜ 山手【やまて】

noun:

• four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)

noun:

• interview with leading player in a game (esp. baseball); player-of-the-game interview - From English "hero interview"

adverb:

• unwillingly; grudgingly; reluctantly

noun:

• shaking head in refusal (to children)

interjection:

• no!; no no!; not at all

noun / ~する noun:

• order (esp. to a number of people); command
• ritual of bowing at start and end of school class

noun / ~する noun:

• corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text - IT term