noun:

• Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875); Russo-Japanese treaty in which Japan exchanged Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands

noun:

• kanji reading that has not been approved by the government (and is not to be taught in public schools)

noun:

• initial response (e.g. to a crisis); action in the earliest stages
• initial shock (of an earthquake); preliminary tremor

noun:

• territory of a stall vendor
• spot on a farm where the harvest would be put in order (Edo period) - archaism

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on
• to bear (guilt, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• ignoring; looking the other way; letting pass - colloquialism - From English "through"
• passing through; going through

noun:

• ball hit through net (in tennis) - Sports term

noun:

• binding particle (i.e. specifying an expression later in the sentence); linking particle; connecting particle - Linguistics term

expression / noun:

• dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters) - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

expression:

• the law has holes large enough for the most wicked men to slip through; the long arm of the law doesn't reach everywhere; fishes big enough to eat boats aren't caught by the net [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to buy the whole lot; to buy in bulk

noun:

• stock speculation; speculation in stocks; playing the stock market

expression:

• no mortal escapes death; all men must die; he who has life, certainly has death [literal] - proverb

noun:

• ring boy; young boy who serves as ring bearer at a wedding

noun / ~する noun:

• finishing (a race); running the whole distance; reaching the goal; staying the course

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• conveying the will of the governing to the governed; top-down (system) - four character idiom

noun:

• "before the spirit of the deceased" (written on the condolence-money envelope)

noun:

• restoring the declining fortunes; recovering from the discouraging situation; reversing the downward trend - four character idiom

noun:

• waist (the part of the pants located above the crotch); pant rise

noun / ~の noun:

• bones of the palm (esp. the metacarpals, but sometimes also including the carpals) - obscure term ➜ 中手骨

noun:

• the first rain to fall between the late autumn and the early winter - archaism

adjectival noun / noun:

• deeply in love with; madly in love with; heads over heels in love with; to be crazy about

noun / ~する noun:

• mounting (animal behaviour)
• putting somebody down (esp. in an underhanded way) in an attempt to appear superior; putting somebody in their place