noun:

• boiled pine pitch and oil (traditionally used as a glue in archery, etc.)

noun:

• train of dress; trailing skirt ➜ 引き摺り
• woman who doesn't work and only thinks about fashion ➜ 引き摺り

noun:

• Osaka Incident; plot by Oi Kentaro and the Liberal Party to support a Korean uprising, 1885

noun:

• persons organized into gangs and wearing flashy clothes, who styled themselves as "chivalrous men" (Edo period) ➜ 男伊達

noun:

• briefly-boiled chicken breast (served cold and mostly raw as sashimi with wasabi-seasoned shoyu)

expression:

• someone who was just crying quickly cheers up and smiles; a child's emotions change easily

noun:

• Druze; Druse; Islamic sect primarily found in Syria and Lebanon

noun:

• All-Campus Joint Struggle League; student group active at universities throughout Japan between 1968 and 1969

noun:

• All-Campus Joint Struggle League; student group active at universities throughout Japan between 1968 and 1969 - abbreviation ➜ 全学共闘会議

noun:

• loco moco; Hawaiian dish, trad. white rice topped with hamburger patty, fried egg and brown gravy - Food term

noun:

• sexual activity (at a brothel) involving body lotion and an air mattress - From English "mat play"

noun:

• ABCD encirclement; embargoes against Japan by America, Britain, China, and the Dutch starting in 1940

noun:

• magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)

noun:

• former Christian missionary who apostatized and converted to Buddhism (during the Edo period) ➜ バテレン

noun:

• sport that requires a strong willpower and hunger for success (esp. boxing) - From English "hungry sports"

noun:

• (one of) the eight earliest and most prestigious high schools (Meiji period) - From English "number school"

adjective:

• poor; needy
• lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty; skimpy; slight; inadequate

noun:

• light motor vehicle (up to 660cc and 64bhp); k-car; kei car ➜ 軽カー

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• halving; dividing (into two parts); bisection
• the two equinoxes (vernal and autumnal)

noun:

• shabu-shabu; thinly sliced meat boiled quickly with vegetables, and dipped in sauce - from the sound of this dish being prepared - onomatopoeia - Food term

adverb:

• anybody and everybody; with the best of them; as the next fellow - adv equivalent of 誰も ➜ 誰も

noun / ~の noun:

• Siberia

noun:

• cake made with layers of sweet bean paste and sponge cake

noun:

• nut (as in nut and bolt)
• natural unit of information content; nat

noun:

• fragment; scrap; cut end; cut-off piece; chip; odds and ends

adverb / ~と adverb:

• verdant; fresh and green; bright green; lush - often 青々として