noun:

• escabeche; fried fish marinated and served cold - From French "escabèche"

noun:

• beshimi; noh mask with a slanted mouth, bulging eyes and large nostrils

noun:

• around-the-clock; (working) day and night - four character idiom

noun:

• fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone

noun:

• pen drawing; pen-and-ink drawing

noun:

• Nozomi; fastest Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (stopping only at largest stations) ➜ こだま・ひかり

noun:

• dorayaki; dessert sandwich of two small sweet pancakes and red bean paste - Food term ➜ 餡こ【あんこ】

adverb:

• sometimes; occasionally; now and then; from time to time

noun:

• rain dragon; mythical beast with yellowish green skin and red tail

noun:

• eggslut; breakfast dish based on coddled egg and pureed potato - Food term

noun:

• lecher with a quiet exterior; lecher who doesn't seem it and doesn't talk about it

noun:

• Nanban trade; Japanese trade with Spain and Portugal (1543-1641)

numeric:

• 108; one hundred and eight

noun:

• the number of kleshas, worldly thoughts and passions - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩
• the sum of 12 months, 24 seasons of the solar year, and 72 'climates' of one year ➜ 七十二候・節気

noun:

• spray curing; curing of newly-poured and slightly hardened concrete

noun:

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

noun / ~する noun / ~と adverb:

• hurly-burly; helter-skelter; hustle and bustle; turmoil - onomatopoeia

expression:

• dignified without being overbearing; being dignified, and moreover warm, as such one is gentle ➜ 威ありて猛からず【いありてたけからず】

noun:

• survivability; military term for the ability to withstand an attack and continue to function

noun:

• Okinawan-style stewed pork cubes; boned pork rib meat, cut into 5 cm squares, stewed in awamori, soy, dashi broth, and sugar - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

noun:

• dirty smoke; soot and smoke

expression:

• it's hard to please everybody; damned if you do and damned if you don't - proverb

noun:

• all terminals; winning hand consisting of only ones and nines as pungs or kongs plus a pair - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• leatherman; conspicuously gay male who belongs to the leather subculture and engages in bodybuilding - From English "hard gay"

expression:

• Et tu, Brutus?; And you too, Brutus?

noun:

• both (railway) tracks; (both) up and down tracks (lines)