noun:

• resistance - From French
• popular resistance against a military invasion (especially of that by the French against the Nazis in World War II)

expression / noun:

• Now let's return to the main subject; To return from the digression,.. (in a conversation, speech, or story-telling) - four character idiom

noun:

• area of a soccer pitch between the penalty area and the centre ring (of tactical importance) - Sports term - From English "vital area"

noun:

• judicial decision made with human kindness and warmth in a fair manner (from the decisions of Ōoka Tadasuke, a jurist in 17th century Japan)

adjectival noun:

• plausible (e.g. of a rumour); believable (e.g. of a story); specious (e.g. of an argument); credible (e.g. of a lie); looking very like the truth

expression:

• early on; earlier on; from early

noun / ~する noun:

• arrival on scene; arrival on location

noun:

• arrival on scene; arrival on location - abbreviation ➜ 現場到着

noun:

• sending on approval; sending on approbation - IT term

noun:

• apomictic; of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis; related to reproduction without fertilization, meiosis or production of gametes, with the result that the seeds are genetically identical to the parent plant

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November)

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to assume the air of ...; to behave like ... - after noun, adjectival noun or adj-stem

godan ~る verb:

• to put on airs; to be self-important - colloquialism

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• in the end (after a long process); finally; after all; at last - esp. 〜したあげく

noun:

• last line (of a renga) ➜ 発句

noun:

• getting free admission on the strength of one's name; being let in somewhere because one is recognized

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

noun:

• counter selling; face-to-face selling; person-to-person selling

noun:

• fashion show (on a catwalk) - From English "runway show" ➜ ファッションショー

godan ~う verb:

• to take on a role; to take part

noun:

• house located on a street corner; corner house

expression / adverb:

• (on a) closer look; closer scrutiny; second look

noun:

• double doors opening from the centre

~の noun:

• double-opening from the centre (e.g. doors, casement windows, etc.)

noun:

• method of filleting fish, chicken, etc. with a central cut and peeling back the flesh

noun:

• manager (e.g. of a business, an idol, etc.)
• in a sports team (esp. at school) someone who does the routine drudge work

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - proverb

noun:

• any of a number of sets of thirty-three holy places enshrining Avalokitesvara (esp. those comprising a popular pilgrimage in the Kinki region) ➜ 西国三十三所

noun:

• medal; shield; badge
• card on which dharani (etc.) are written ➜ 陀羅尼
• notice board (in a Zen temple)
• tile (mahjong, dominos, etc.) ➜ 牌【パイ】