noun:

• Aum Shinrikyo incidents; string of incidents, crimes, etc. committed by the Aum Shinrikyo religious group in the 1980s

expression / noun:

• the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

expression:

• size isn't everything; something might be small but still pack a punch; Japanese pepper is small-grained but has a tongue-numbing tingle [literal] - proverb

noun:

• arm glove; arm warmer; sleevelet
• bracelet
• leather thread on guard or pommel of a sword
• hole in the butt end of a Chinese spear

noun:

• heliox; gas mixture of helium and oxygen; often hypoxic gas mix used by divers; medical gas used for its low density and easy breathing

noun:

• standard measurement for the distance between pillars in the Kansai area (approx. 197 cm) ➜ 田舎間
• Kyoto-size tatami mat (approx. 190 cm by 95 cm) ➜ 田舎間

expression:

• now rejoicing, now worrying; swinging from joy to sorrow; glad and sad by turns; alternating hope and fear; unable to put one's mind at ease - four character idiom

noun:

• door-to-door manzai; form of comedy orig. performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai ➜ 漫才

noun:

• false start; jumping the gun - From English "flying start"
• flying start; running start
• broadcasting a television or radio program a few minutes before its scheduled time

noun:

• swastika (esp. a counterclockwise swastika as a Buddhist symbol); fylfot; gammadion - used as a symbol for Buddhist temples on maps ➜ ハーケンクロイツ
• swastika-shaped family crest

interjection:

• wow; yeah; ugh; yuck; awesome; really; let's go ［卍］ - usu. at the beginning or/and end of a sentence or word but also by itself; used for emphasis, etc. - slang

noun:

• eaves (of roof)
• narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building - Architecture term
• visor (of a cap); brim; peak
• classic Japanese women's low pompadour hairstyle - abbreviation ➜ 庇髪

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn up; to make an appearance; to put in an appearance; to drop by

ichidan verb:

• to be stricken (e.g. with grief); to be battered (e.g. by disasters)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be divisible (by); to be divided without residue (remainder)
• to be satisfied; to be convinced - usu. used in the negative ➜ 割り切れない

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• a long time (since the last time); first in a long time

noun:

• figure of a person; figures of people
• shadow of a person

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be a prostitute; to work as a prostitute; to sell sexual services

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hoop; to put a hoop on; to bind a barrel with hoops

godan ~す verb:

• to pole (a boat); to punt (a boat); to swim with the tide

noun:

• stomach (esp. a pig's stomach or a cow's rumen); pork stomach - perhaps from the English word "gut" - Food term

expression:

• "rat in a trap" [figurative]; "trapped rat" [figurative]; rat in a bag [literal]

noun:

• noble's consort; consort of a prince; consort of a duke; duchess; princess

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a mistake; to commit an error; to commit a fault

noun / ~する noun:

• backdoor admission to a school; backdoor entry to a school; buying one's way into school; bribing one's way into a school - four character idiom

noun:

• Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear); Onogoro Island - archaism ➜ 天の瓊矛
• Japan