noun:

• lingering recession; an economy that lingers in the doldrums after bottoming out - four character idiom

noun:

• chopped kabayaki eel on rice; eel fillets cooked over charcoal with soy flavoured sauce, cut in small pieces and serve on rice - Food term

noun:

• apostille; stamp or certificate of public document authentication in accordance with Hague Convention XII

noun:

• finger Braille; system of communicating with the deaf-blind in which the receiver's fingers are tapped like a Braille typewriter ➜ 点字【てんじ】

noun:

• mi; 3rd note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

expression / adjective:

• useless; in vain

noun:

• anthropophobia; dizziness experienced in crowded places

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to take the responsibility (for an action); to carry out in a responsible manner

noun:

• supplementary kanji; 5,801 kanji coded in JIS X 0212 to supplement those in JIS X 0208 - IT term

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to market (something); to feature (something to sell); to trade in (something); to securitize

noun:

• being jealous of things that have nothing to do with one; being jealous of others who are in love with each other - four character idiom

noun:

• summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season ➜ 暑中見舞い

noun:

• Imperial era; system of counting years from the start of Emperor Jinmu's reign in 660 BC ➜ 神武

noun:

• Ctenochaetus; genus of bristletooth tangs in the family Acanthuridae

noun:

• horse oil; extract of horse subcutaneous fat, used in cosmetics and traditional medicine

expression:

• after; in (an amount of time) ➜ 経つ【たつ】

noun:

• noro; member of a hereditary caste of female mediums in Okinawa

noun:

• Dharmakara Bodhisattva; Amitabha Buddha in a pre-enlightenment incarnation - Buddhism term

noun:

• memorial performance; performance in memory of someone - four character idiom

noun:

• the right to sunshine; in zoning, the right to have sunlight falling on one's building not be obstructed by new buildings

noun:

• Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875); Russo-Japanese treaty in which Japan exchanged Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands

noun:

• no liking for; no interest in

noun:

• deuteragonist; secondary or supporting actor in a noh or kyogen play (possibly multiple actors) ➜ 仕手

noun:

• Edo chrysanthemum; variety of chrysanthemum originally cultivated in Edo
• China aster (Callistephus chinensis) ➜ 蝦夷菊

counter:

• double; unit used in calculation of a hand's score - Mahjong term