noun:

• owner-operator company; corporation in which the business manager is also the major stockholder

noun:

• tour guide-interpreter; tour guide licensed for guiding foreigners in Japan - obsolete term ➜ 全国通訳案内士

noun:

• the average Joe; the man in the street

godan ~る verb:

• to lurk; to hover in the background
• to be coiled up; to stretch tortuously

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to writhe (in pain); to be in agony
• to be anguished; to be agonized; to be troubled

expression:

• bearing no comparison with; not to be mentioned in the same breath as

noun:

• 1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa

noun:

• blessing of heaven; hand in which the dealer goes out on their initial deal - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun / ~する noun:

• ragequit; quitting an online game in anger (over losing) - slang

noun:

• autumn eggplant; eggplant picked eaten in the autumn ➜ 茄子

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to go on a fool's errand; to go in vain

noun:

• SuperBall scooping; festival game in which one scoops up rubber bouncy balls floating in water ➜ 金魚掬い

noun / ~する noun:

• killing with a bomb; killing in a bombing

noun:

• sheath heater; electric coil heater contained in metal tube

noun / ~する noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• billing and cooing; holding an intimate, long-winded conversation in whispers - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• on the brink of collapse; in a state of near-collapse - four character idiom

noun:

• Land Price LOOK Report; quarterly trend report of the prices of intensively used land in major cities

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fish; to have a line in the water

noun:

• talent; unit of currency in ancient Greece and Israel - From Greek "talanton"

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to occur one after another; to happen in succession

expression:

• enter through the narrow gate (for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction); enter ye in at the strait gate - from Matthew 7:13 - proverb

noun:

• competitive lobbying; rivalry in campaigning (for and against) - four character idiom

suffix:

• doing; in such a state - abbreviation
• doing together; contest; match
• familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small") - familiar language

noun:

• the Four Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, and Kawachi); obsolete in 757 when Izumi was established as a separate province from Kawachi - archaism ➜ 五畿内

noun:

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