expression:

• at the last moment; this late in the game ➜ この期【このご】

noun:

• age lowering; reduction in age

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to marry off; to give in marriage

noun:

• night-soil vault; clay pot used to collect feces in an outhouse ➜ 汲み取り便所・壷【つぼ】・便槽

noun:

• multilingual; in many languages

noun:

• Odontaspididae; family of four species in two genera of lamniform sand sharks, also known as sand tiger sharks or ragged tooth sharks

noun:

• mutual mourning; when one is in mourning, one doesn not make condolence calls or offers of help to others in mourning

noun:

• leniency policy; addition to Japan's antitrust law that allows lower fines for the first company involved in a cartel, etc. to admit their involvement - Law term ➜ 独占禁止法

noun:

• land investment; investment in land

noun:

• Proscylliidae; family of finback catsharks containing seven species in four genera

noun:

• 1955 System; Japanese political alignment with the LDP in government and the JSP in opposition, which lasted until 1993 ➜ 自由民主党【じゆうみんしゅとう】・日本社会党【にっぽんしゃかいとう】

noun:

• Protectorate General of the Western Regions; Han-period Chinese office established in East Turkestan in 60 BCE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Alawi; Islamic mystical group centred in Syria ➜ アラウィー

noun:

• Massacre of the Innocents; episode of infanticide by Herod that appears in the New Testament

noun:

• two-dimensional complex; people more interested in two-dimensional (i.e. anime or manga) girls than real people

noun:

• shitpost; worthless post or thread in an Internet forum - slang ➜ スレ

noun:

• attending a meeting; participating in a meeting

noun:

• fatwa; legal pronouncement in Islam, issued by a religious law specialist on a specific issue - From Arabic "fatwa"

noun:

• half; cutting in two

noun:

• crépinette; flat sausage wrapped in pork caul - From French

noun:

• mooncake; disc-shaped confection of wheat-flour dough filled with bean paste, usu. eaten during Autumn in China

noun:

• sugidama; ball made from sprigs of Japanese cedar, traditionally hung in the eaves of sake breweries

ichidan verb:

• to take a pinch of something (e.g. salt); to pick up in one's fingers

noun:

• oden; dish of various ingredients, e.g. egg, daikon, potato, chikuwa, konnyaku, etc. stewed in soy-flavored dashi - かんとだき is ksb and かんとに is Nagoya-ben ➜ 御田

expression / ichidan verb:

• to shorten (a garment); to take in ➜ 丈【たけ】