expression / godan ~す verb:

• to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses - Sumo term

noun:

• the teacher's theory

godan ~る verb:

• to lick one's lips

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to turn one's back to

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to fold one's wings

noun:

• Blanford's fox (Vulpes cana)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to vie with one's opponent

noun:

• women's writing; literature written by women

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• ashamed deep down in one's heart; blushing with shame when one remembers something - four character idiom

adverb:

• contrary to one's expectations

noun:

• Director General of Prime Minister's Office

noun:

• one's relationships; people one knows; circle of friends - four character idiom

noun:

• Jew's harp ➜ 口琴【こうきん】

noun:

• women's work pants

noun:

• one's high school days

expression:

• unable to suppress one's emotions ➜ 堪える
• unable to cope with one's responsibilities

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• Reye's syndrome

noun:

• evil eye

noun:

• group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants)
• non-human - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• losing one's virginity; defloration - From English "lost virgin"

noun:

• Poisson's ratio

noun:

• Broca's area - Anatomy term

noun:

• anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide - 太宰治

expression / noun:

• Kepler's laws - Physics term