noun:

• pupils who are not members of any school club; go-home club [literal] - humorous term ➜ 幽霊部員

noun:

• cottony cushion scale (species of scale insect, Icerya purchasi)

noun:

• taiko drumming; taiko drummer ➜ 太鼓【たいこ】
• Laccotrephes japonensis (species of water scorpion) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• chestnut munia (species of passerine bird, Lonchura atricapilla); black-headed munia

noun:

• soldier fly (any fly of family Stratiomyidae, esp. species Stratiomys japonica)

noun:

• red-spotted grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus akaara); Hong Kong grouper

noun:

• Church of Perfect Liberty (religious group founded in Japan in 1924) ➜ パーフェクトリバティー教団

noun:

• bluespotted boxfish (Ostracion immaculatus)
• boxfish (any fish of family Ostraciidae); trunkfish

noun:

• first year (college) student; freshman - Kansai dialect ➜ 一年生
• graduate of one year's standing

noun:

• phase change - Physics term
• state change - IT term
• transformation of characters - includes flattening, petrification, chocolization, etc. - colloquialism

noun:

• classification of Japanese words by their origin as Japanese, Chinese or Western

noun:

• equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

expression:

• good wine makes good blood; sake is the best of all medicines - proverb

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of next year and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• miscellany (classification of Japanese poetry unrelated to the seasons or to love)

noun:

• lip reading (esp. in context of deaf people); lipreading; speech reading; speechreading ➜ 読唇術

noun:

• apricot (Prunus armeniaca)
• Prunus persica var. densa (Chinese variety of peach) ➜ 寿星桃

noun:

• Eid al-Fitr (festival marking the end of Ramadan); Id ul-Fitr - From Arabic

noun:

• electric catfish (any species of family Malapteruridae, esp. species Malapterurus electricus)

noun:

• type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)

noun / ~する noun:

• concurrently studying the teachings of two or more different schools or sects

noun:

• vermiculated spinefoot (Siganus vermiculatus, species of Indo-West Pacific rabbitfish); vermiculate rabbitfish

noun:

• dialects of Japanese spoken in Western Tottori prefecture and Eastern Shimane prefecture ➜ 出雲弁

noun:

• sailfin tang (Zebrasoma velifer, species of Pacific tang also found off Mozambique)

noun:

• boa catshark (Scyliorhinus boa, species from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico)