noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

noun / ~の noun:

• boning (fish or meat); deboning
• watering down (a plan, bill, etc.); dilution; emasculation
• taking the backbone out of; weakening

noun:

• cutting the New Year's rice cake (January 11th)
• traditional breaking of a sake cask at weddings, receptions, etc.

noun:

• one-piece garment with snaps up the front, sort of like a jumpsuit for babies - From English "baby all"

noun:

• creating a noun by affixing "ku" to the end of an inflectable word (e.g. "omowaku", "osoraku")

noun:

• road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762) - obscure term

conjunction:

• and then; besides; on top of that
• in that case; that being the case; if so

noun:

• alcohol (esp. sake) served in a small wooden box; alcohol (esp. sake) sold in a small wooden box

noun:

• Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era

noun:

• Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912 CE)

noun:

• season when the sky is clear and the air warm (spring)
• first ten days of the fourth lunar month ➜ 卯月

noun:

• scalloped bonnethead (Sphyrna corona, little-known species of hammerhead shark found in the eastern Pacific from southern Mexico to northern Peru)

noun:

• Anabantoidei (suborder of the order Perciformes known as labyrinth fish that are defined by having an accessory breathing organ for respiration in air)

noun:

• Anabantoidei (suborder of the order Perciformes known as labyrinth fish that are defined by having an accessory breathing organ for respiration in air) ➜ キノボリウオ亜目【キノボリウオあもく】

adverbial noun / noun:

• in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability - four character idiom

noun:

• Church of Perfect Liberty (religious group founded in Japan in 1924)

noun:

• woman's level of motivation in fashion, makeup, taste in clothes, etc.; femininity - colloquialism

expression:

• the end justifies the means; circumstances may justify a lie - proverb

noun:

• Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star - Astronomy term ➜ ポラリス

noun:

• Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star - obscure term - Astronomy term ➜ ポラリス

noun:

• 'ra'-removed word (i.e. lacking the 'ra' in the 'rareru' verb conjunction)

expression:

• don't lend money to a man who doesn't have an erection in the morning (because he's not healthy and might die before he can repay) - archaism - proverb

noun:

• wealthy women who strive to follow the fashions exactly and be seen in all the right place

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan

interjection:

• yes ➜ はい

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the sea of Japan