noun:

• Republic of Haiti

noun:

• report of a lost article

noun:

• collage of pieces of colored paper

noun:

• the light of dawn

noun:

• abolition of slavery

noun:

• ball won in a game of pachinko ➜ パチンコ

noun:

• the Japanese Alps

noun:

• cry of a baby at its birth

noun:

• improvement of one's constitution; reformation - four character idiom

noun:

• tournament win in the highest division - Sumo term

noun:

• hollow at nape of the neck

noun:

• communication with the dead

noun:

• running out of gasoline (petrol)

noun:

• wrestler who keeps going up and down the rankings - Sumo term

noun:

• chief of staff

noun:

• kabuki performance in commemoration of Danjuro and Kikugoro

noun:

• years of (someone's) birth and death

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of next year and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• force of water (current, stream, jet, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• lying heavy on the stomach; being uneasily digested ➜ 靠れる

expression / noun:

• people who partied flamboyantly in Harajuku, etc. in the 70s and 80s

noun:

• freedom of information; access to information; disclosure of information (e.g. by the government)

expression:

• the samurai glories in honourable poverty; keep a stiff upper lip! - proverb

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term

expression / noun:

• dark circles around the eyes; periorbital dark circles ➜ 隈