noun:

• drying a futon (by hanging it outside in the sun)

noun / ~する noun:

• arrival on location (esp. used in transport industries, police, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 現地到着

noun:

• information on space availability in a parking lot (car park) - four character idiom

~と adverb / adverb:

• flutter; flap; sound of something light moving in the wind - onomatopoeia

noun:

• prying tool used in interior decoration - From English "interior bar"

noun:

• occurrence of deep vein thrombosis in air travelers ➜ エコノミークラス症候群

noun:

• hypercholesterolemia; hypercholesterolaemia (excess of cholesterol in the bloodstream)

noun:

• list of 1,006 kanji taught in Japanese primary schools ➜ 常用漢字・当用漢字

noun:

• Southern Buddhism (as practiced in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia) ➜ 北方仏教

noun:

• small vessel or bowl in which sake cups are rinsed ➜ 杯洗

noun:

• medial; final-head (glide before the center vowel in Chinese)

noun:

• championship; defense (e.g. of a position in debate); apologetics

expression:

• something indistinguishable or indistinct (like an egret in the snow) - obscure term

noun:

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (abolished in 1995); GATT

noun:

• slender rope that goes through the hole in a coin

noun:

• Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)

noun:

• straw or hay (laid out in barns for livestock) - obscure term

noun:

• (mobile phone) number portability (introduced to Japan in October 2005) ➜ ナンバーポータビリティー

noun:

• ahimsa (principle of non-violence in Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.)

noun:

• lek (communal ground used by birds in mating season); lekking

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - polite language ➜ ない・ます

noun:

• Poria cocos (species of basidiomycete used in Chinese medicine) - archaism ➜ 茯苓

noun:

• nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land - Buddhism term

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - polite language - Kansai dialect ➜ ません

noun:

• pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon) - obscure term ➜ 貝多羅葉