noun:

• strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building) - four character idiom

noun:

• Ilex macropoda (species of holly common in Japan)

noun:

• on-board device (e.g. in prepaid road toll system)

noun:

• nuclear family in the postwar generation - From English "new family"

noun:

• fine chemical (high precision chemicals, typically used in pharmaceutical products)

noun:

• lookup (e.g. in a dictionary, address list, etc.)

noun:

• decorative portable shrine; float used in festivals - not often used in Kyoto - Kansai dialect ➜ 山車【だし】

noun:

• low kick (e.g. in fighting)

noun / suffix:

• general affairs section (e.g. in a company); operations division

noun:

• language used in red-light districts during the Edo period ➜ 郭言葉

noun:

• drying a futon (by hanging it outside in the sun)

noun / ~する noun:

• arrival on location (esp. used in transport industries, police, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 現地到着

noun:

• information on space availability in a parking lot (car park) - four character idiom

~と adverb / adverb:

• flutter; flap; sound of something light moving in the wind - onomatopoeia

noun:

• prying tool used in interior decoration - From English "interior bar"

noun:

• occurrence of deep vein thrombosis in air travelers ➜ エコノミークラス症候群

noun:

• hypercholesterolemia; hypercholesterolaemia (excess of cholesterol in the bloodstream)

noun:

• list of 1,006 kanji taught in Japanese primary schools ➜ 常用漢字・当用漢字

noun:

• Southern Buddhism (as practiced in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia) ➜ 北方仏教

noun:

• small vessel or bowl in which sake cups are rinsed ➜ 杯洗

noun:

• medial; final-head (glide before the center vowel in Chinese)

noun:

• championship; defense (e.g. of a position in debate); apologetics

expression:

• something indistinguishable or indistinct (like an egret in the snow) - obscure term

noun:

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (abolished in 1995); GATT

noun:

• slender rope that goes through the hole in a coin