noun:

• credit card issued by a particular store or business - From English "house card"

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fill one's own pocket by taking advantage of a position

expression / adverb:

• whether one likes it or not; inevitably; unavoidably; compulsorily; by force

noun:

• New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor

noun:

• disposing of a case by placing an offender on probation or under supervision

noun / ~する noun:

• pressing clothes, etc. by placing them under the bedding while one sleeps

noun:

• Lingchi; Leng Tch'e; slow torture by slicing off parts of the body

noun:

• melody or flushing sound played by a Japanese toilet to mask excretion sounds

expression / adjective:

• lost for words; not knowing what to say by way of excuse (refutation)

noun:

• Malta fever (variety of brucellosis caused by the bacteria Brucella melitensis)

noun:

• schistosomiasis japonica (form of bilharzia caused by the Oriental blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum) ➜ 日本住血吸虫

noun:

• schistosomiasis japonica (form of bilharzia caused by the Oriental blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum) - obscure term ➜ 日本住血吸虫症

noun:

• forming by hand (instead of using a potter's wheel, etc.); handwork

noun:

• Law for the Protection of Personal Information Retained by Independent Administrative Institutions (2003)

expression:

• appearances can be deceiving; don't judge a book by its cover - proverb

adverb:

• gradually; by degrees - obscure term ➜ 段々・漸次
• the sight of a tall soaring rock - obscure term
• crying; weeping - obscure term

noun:

• female medium who summons spirits by sounding the string of a catalpa bow ➜ 巫女【みこ】・口寄せ

noun:

• long cloak worn by soldiers, students, etc. (Meiji period)

noun:

• woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)

noun / ~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• large pile of rocks
• open-heartedness; not being bothered by unimportant things ➜ 磊落

noun:

• merchant guild entrusted by the shogunate to manage its respective trade (Edo period)

noun:

• biopower; Foucault's term for the regulation by modern states of their subjects

noun:

• goalkeeper - abbreviation - Sports term ➜ ゴールキーパー
• goal kick - abbreviation - Sports term ➜ ゴールキック
• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges) - abbreviation - slang ➜ 合コン

noun:

• sastrugi; parallel wave-like ridges formed on a snow surface by the wind

expression / noun:

• thanking another driver by flashing one's hazard lights - colloquialism - From English "thank you hazard"