noun:

• brokerage; brokerage firm; broking house; securities company

noun / ~する noun:

• pursuing one overriding objective while forsaking all the others - four character idiom

noun:

• Reduced Instruction Set Computer (or Computing); RISC - IT term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to gain (put on) weight

noun:

• short flute piece (in kyogen; usu. a lively solo)
• flute and drum music played after each act but the last (in kabuki) - also written as 砂切

noun:

• facet data - IT term

temporal noun:

• the very beginning

noun:

• patron saint

noun:

• puberty

noun / ~する noun:

• (wet) compress; poultice; fomentation

noun:

• tumor necrosis factor (e.g. cachexin); tumour necrosis factor; TNF

noun:

• parking space certificate (sometimes required for car ownership)

noun:

• men 17-20 years, subject to a quarter of the obligations of older men (ritsuryo system) - archaism

noun:

• lophophorate (a tube worm, moss animal or lampshell) - obscure term ➜ 触手動物

noun:

• lauxaniid fly (any fly of family Lauxaniidae)
• flesh fly (any fly of family Sarcophagidae) ➜ 肉蠅

noun:

• steeplechase (horse race)

noun:

• four gods said to rule over the four directions
• (in China) four gods said to rule over the four seasons

noun:

• predominant color; predominant colour

noun:

• advocacy of consumer rights (product safety, accurate labelling, etc.); consumer activism; consumer advocacy ➜ コンシューマリズム
• consumer spending; high levels of consumption ➜ コンシューマリズム

noun:

• neurobiology

noun:

• interviewee; subject of an interview

noun:

• one's family and relatives; one's kith and kin - four character idiom

noun:

• "limit of heat" solar term (approx. Aug. 23, when the weather is said to start cooling down) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• marbled sole (Pleuronectes yokohamae) (esp. caught in Beppu bay) ➜ 真子鰈【まこがれい】

noun:

• shinto shrew (Sorex shinto)