noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language) ➜ 小新聞
• major newspaper

noun:

• Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links - Buddhism term

noun:

• Abenomics; economic and monetary policies of Shinzo Abe, 90th and 96th prime minister of Japan, during his second term

noun:

• French paradox; paradox of relatively high health levels in France despite smoking, consumption of alcohol, meat, etc.

noun:

• New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)

noun:

• circle ➜ ○【まる】

noun / prefix noun:

• entirety; whole; full; complete

noun:

• money; dough; moola - slang
• enclosure inside a castle's walls - esp. 丸
• soft-shelled turtle - Kansai dialect ➜ スッポン

suffix:

• suffix for ship names; suffix for names of people (esp. infants); suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc.; suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc. - esp. 丸 ➜ 麻呂

noun / ~の noun:

• the two views (of an object) referring to the same thing; being inseparable like the two sides of an object; two sides of the same coin - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to run out of breath; to be short of breath; to lose one's breath
• to run out of steam; to be unable to continue; to collapse
• to die

noun / ~する noun:

• (the privilege to have) an audience (with one's lord, a dignitary, etc.); interview (with one's superior)
• one's debut (first) appearance; debut (of a new product, work of art, actor, etc.)
• trial service (of a servant)

noun:

• imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era
• patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation

noun / ~する noun:

• astringency; constriction; contraction
• collecting (e.g. opinions); putting together; summarizing
• extraction (of taxes)
• convergence (of light) ➜ 収束
• convergence - Mathematics term ➜ 収束
• convergence - Biology term ➜ 収斂進化

noun:

• looter; thief at the scene of a fire - abbreviation ➜ 火事場泥棒
• someone who takes advantage of a crisis to commit a crime

noun:

• looter; thief at the scene of a fire
• someone who takes advantage of a crisis to commit a crime

adjectival noun:

• smooth (of a surface); glassy; velvety; soft
• smooth (of an action, proceedings, etc.); fluent (speech); fluid; trouble-free
• continuously differentiable - Mathematics term

noun:

• young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.)

suffix noun / noun:

• girl ➜ 彦

prefix:

• small; cute; lesser (in names of species)

noun:

• prostitute - archaism - Kyōto dialect

noun:

• advancing money; temporary payment for someone else; payment on behalf of another party, with the expectation of being reimbursed later

noun:

• practice of buying a bottle of spirits at a bar which is then kept there for the customer - From English "bottle keep"

suffix:

• (strongly emphatic) too preoccupied or busy to even think of ...; ... is out of the question; this is not an occasion for

noun:

• beehive; hive; honeycomb
• something full of holes; "swiss cheese" [figurative] - idiom
• honeycomb tripe; wall of a cow's second stomach - Food term
• cast iron anvil stand - obsolete term

noun:

• explanatory notes (at the start of a book); introductory remarks; usage guide (e.g. of a dictionary)
• legend (on maps, drawings, etc.) ➜ キャプション

noun:

• box set at a gate of a home or near the front door, used for receiving deliveries of newspapers, mail, milk, etc.

noun:

• style of speaking in which the speaker gives the end of each sentence or phrase a higher intonation - From English "up talk"

noun:

• super spreader (carrier of a viral disease who spreads the virus to a large number of other people)

noun:

• altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc. - abbreviation ➜ アイドルコラージュ

noun:

• coping; top rail; cap piece; head board; what covers the top of a wall, torii or gate, not necessarily made of wood - Architecture term