noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 企業短期経済観測調査【きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ】

noun:

• Gender Equality In Employment Act

noun:

• children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle ➜ 押し競べ【おしくらべ】

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• (sound) lingering in the air; trailing notes (of a bell, etc.) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• person in charge of preparing food for rikishi (usually performed by low-ranking rikishi) - Sumo term

godan ~く verb:

• to listen in; to eavesdrop

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・ピー柿

noun:

• game in which one makes a big snowball by rolling it around in the snow

noun:

• member of a (school) club who does not partake in the club's activities - humorous term ➜ 帰宅部

noun:

• makizushi comprising mackerel fillet marinated in salt and vinegar, wrapped in rice and covered in shredded kombu - Food term

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Postal Services Privatization

noun:

• vegetables cooked in oil; fried vegetables

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit) - abbreviation ➜ 身八つ口

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to nip (something) in the bud

noun:

• division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine; spirit divided in such a manner

expression / noun:

• humiliation of defeat in battle; past humiliation by others; shame of an unendurable disgrace - proverb ➜ 会稽の恥を雪ぐ【かいけいのはじをすすぐ】

noun / ~の noun:

• being raised in a town

noun:

• kissing in public (on the street) - obscure term - slang

noun:

• hostess bar recruiters, etc. dressed in black suits - colloquialism
• young delinquents wearing black at Aomori's Nebuta festival - colloquialism ➜ ねぶた

noun:

• in swarms

expression:

• in spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn; in spring one sleeps like a log - proverb

noun:

• organization of shrine parishioners in a hamlet; parish guild

adjective:

• (feeling of) tightness in the chest

noun:

• Special Permission to Stay in Japan; residence status that can be granted to illegal immigrants or overstayers

noun / ~する noun:

• springing up in clusters