expression:

• fight fire with fire; set a thief to catch a thief; fight one evil with another - idiom

noun:

• hard lump under the skin (e.g. adipous tumor, lymph node tumor, etc.)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• grinding against; pressing or rubbing with turning movements (e.g. someone's shoulders with one's elbow) - onomatopoeia
• rolling one's eyes; goggling one's eyes; googly eyes
• rattling sound

noun:

• chilled syrup; soft drink of malt syrup mixed with boiling water, ginger juice, grated ginger, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon (used as a refreshing summer drink, similar to ginger ale) - Food term ➜ 飴湯

noun:

• dregs; sediment; grounds; meal
• lees (esp. sake) - often 粕
• leftovers; by-product
• worthless item; thing of little to no value
• dregs (e.g. of society); scum; dross
• card only worth 1 point (in hanafuda) ➜ カス札

noun:

• breaking up a match on doctor's orders (in boxing, etc.) - From English "doctor stop"
• being ordered by one's doctor to give up such habits as drinking, smoking, overeating, etc.

noun:

• steaming basket; wooden frame holder with reed base used to steam food over a pot - 井籠 (rarely 井篭) refers to a square basket
• soba served on a small wickerwork tray; wickerwork tray (for serving soba)

expression:

• walk a mile in other's shoes to understand their suffering; you can't appreciate others' suffering until you've gone through it yourself; pinch yourself and know others' pain [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• covering one's head with a handkerchief, scarf, etc.; tying a cloth around one's head
• feigning ignorance; shutting one's eyes (to)

adjectival noun / noun:

• upper part

noun:

• upper stream; upper course of a river ［かみて］
• right side of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage left (actor's POV) ［かみて］

adjectival noun / noun:

• skillful (only in comparisons); dexterity (only in comparisons) ［うわて］

noun:

• over-arm grip on opponent's belt ［うわて］ - Sumo term

expression:

• it is to be regretted that ...; it is a pity that ...; it is unfortunately that ...

noun:

• hard-liners; diehards; hawks

noun / adjectival noun:

• (young) man with traditionally masculine interests; tough boy; man's man

noun:

• hard news; reporter who covers political and economic affairs

noun / adjectival noun:

• strait-laced type (with respect to relationships)

noun:

• bullish traders

expression:

• a friend is a good thing to have; a good friend is a great blessing

expression:

• a friend is a good thing to have; a good friend is a great blessing ➜ 持つべきものは友

noun:

• high-ranking noh actor ➜ 能太夫
• head of a school of noh performance
• high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period)
• jōruri narrator; manzai narrator ➜ 浄瑠璃・万歳【まんざい】
• female role actor in kabuki ➜ 女形
• low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine ➜ 御師
• lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) ［太夫］

expression:

• disliking a certain food without having tried it
• disliking something without having tried it; being prejudiced against; having an instinctive aversion to

noun:

• building-to-land ratio; building coverage ratio; land coverage; site coverage

noun:

• Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations)
• nickname
• section of a village

noun:

• where one has gone to; place where one has gone

noun:

• lunch box brought to cram school; cram school lunch box - slang ➜ 弁

noun:

• Gould's monitor (Varanus gouldii, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia); sand goanna; sand monitor; Gould's goanna

noun:

• surface Antonym: 裏
• face (i.e. the visible side of an object)
• front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin
• outside; exterior
• appearance
• public
• first half (of an inning); top (of an inning) - Baseball term Antonym: 裏【うら】
• cover (for tatami mats, etc.)
• foreground - IT term

noun:

• salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt)
• cooking a fish inside a salt crust - abbreviation ➜ 塩釜焼き
• candy made with a wrapping of sweetened rice flour (looking like a salt crust)

noun:

• Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass) ➜ 雌刈萱
• Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass) ➜ 雄刈萱
• thatching grass; thatching sedge

expression / noun:

• closure (of a road); suspension of traffic

expression:

• Road closed (on a sign); Closed to traffic; No through road

noun:

• smith's assistant; assistant who hammers in response to a master smith's signal
• large hammer (used by a smith's assistant)