noun:

• home economists in business; HEIB; home economists working in businesses (on advice, marketing, etc.)

noun:

• racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence

expression / ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to lay out (one's money) in; to invest in

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of verbs ending in "nu" (in written Japanese) - Linguistics term

noun:

• system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith ➜ 寺請制度

noun:

• commander-in-chief

noun:

• barren trees in winter

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to screw in
• to thrust into; to push into; to shove into
• to protest (and seek rectification); to complain

expression:

• the word impossible is not in my dictionary - quote

noun:

• fish swimming about in water

noun:

• blooming in each season

adverb:

• in a circle ➜ 丸い
• amicably ➜ 丸い

noun:

• instructor with a career in their subject area

noun:

• seen in the dark or at a distance; (a woman) looking prettier when seen in the dark or at a distance - four character idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in confusion; to be busy

noun:

• form of hopscotch in which the player kicks a stone through the course

noun:

• rice boiled in tea (and) flavored with sake and shoyu (flavoured)

noun:

• in calligraphy, the four important tools of brush, ink stone, ink stick, and paper - four character idiom

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇汁

noun:

• standard tables of food composition in Japan - abbreviation ➜ 日本食品標準成分表

noun:

• a drop in the ocean (bucket) - four character idiom

noun:

• secret language used in the postwar Showa period where certain words are read backwards - from ジャズ read backwards - Linguistics term

noun:

• burning grass in spring (to kill insects)

noun:

• torture in which the victim is whipped with arrow shafts

noun / adjectival noun:

• knowing how to get on in the world; knowing the secret of success in life - four character idiom