noun:

• lidar; LIDAR; Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging; Light Detection And Ranging

noun:

• okonomiyaki; savoury pancake containing meat or seafood and vegetables

noun:

• lying low; saying nothing and waiting for an opportunity

noun:

• doing something together; co-owning something and using it together - archaism
• being on par with one another - archaism

noun:

• pulling out by the roots; pulling up roots and all

~の noun:

• native born; true born ➜ 生え抜き

noun:

• Mothers; Market of the High-growth and Emerging Stocks

adverb:

• often; frequently; now and then; occasionally - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• lightly (of a movement) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• fish reef; reef where fish live and breed

noun:

• Abitur; German school leavers' examination and university entrance qualification - From German

noun:

• byungjin line; North Korean policy of simultaneous development of its economy and nuclear weapons program

noun:

• Minister of State for Special Missions; Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy

noun:

• scrap of cloth; odds and ends

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to harm oneself in an attempt to harm someone else; to spit at the heavens and have one's spit land back on one's face [literal] - proverb ➜ 天に唾する

noun:

• Ama no Mihashira; the heavenly pillar on Onokoro Island, around which Izanagi and Izanami are said to have wed - archaism ➜ オノコロ島

noun:

• false start; jumping the gun - From English "flying start"
• flying start; running start
• broadcasting a television or radio program a few minutes before its scheduled time

noun:

• ryūsha; spherical part of a pagoda finial between the hōju and suien

noun:

• yaki-fu; wheat gluten leavened with baking powder and baked into long bread-like sticks - Food term ➜ 麸【ふ】

noun:

• Kodama; slowest Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (stopping at all stations) ➜ ひかり・のぞみ

expression:

• one thing after another; out of the frying pan and into the fire - idiom

noun:

• phablet; combination of smartphone and tablet - IT term - From English

noun:

• double-dealer; fence-sitter; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict; duplicity; turncoat - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in a mess; to have things scattered here and there

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• house divination; divination based on the position and form of a house ➜ 家相【かそう】

pronoun:

• a certain someone; Mr So-and-so