expression:

• zombie businesses (firms that would have failed but for government intervention)

noun:

• machine for making (white) lines (in sport fields, etc.) - From English "line car"

noun:

• allotment of rice paddies for cultivation during the cultivator's lifetime (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• tourist bus with high seating for better sight-seeing - From English "high decker, high-deck car" ➜ 観光バス

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to exit - slang ➜ 入り待ち

noun:

• red and black lacquered sake cask with horn-like handles, used for ceremonies ➜ 酒樽

noun:

• stone for cutting one's pubic hair (in public baths)(Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• public storehouse used to store grain or valuables collected for taxation (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• drink box; carton (milk, juice, etc.); paper bag (for vacuum cleaners)

noun:

• oldest architectural style for Shinto shrines (e.g. used at Izumo shrine)

noun:

• container of fresh water for replenishing the kettle and rinsing bowls (tea ceremony)

noun:

• hostess club; bar with female companions for male customers - From English "cabaret club" ➜ キャバクラ

noun:

• quota for recommendations (e.g. student admissions, new team members, etc.); recommendation limit

noun:

• entry (esp. to vehicles); entrance
• equipage for restraining and mounting horses ［のりくち］ - archaism

noun:

• middle-aged woman who looks very young for her age (as through "magic") ➜ 魔女

noun:

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

expression / noun:

• the last remaining piece (which people are reluctant to take for themselves) - Ōsaka dialect

noun / ~する noun:

• preservation of machinery or vehicles for display purposes (i.e. no longer operational) ➜ 動態保存

noun:

• barracks; cantonment
• temporary lodging with roof but no walls (esp. for military exercises) - orig. meaning

expression:

• apologies for writing to you without either of us following the other - abbr. of ＦＦ外から失礼します; used on twitter - slang

expression:

• apologies for writing to you without either of us following the other - abbr. of ＦＦ外から失礼します; used on twitter - slang

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to crash into
• to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand)
• to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)

noun:

• boss; leader; head
• difficult enemy in a video game, usu. found at the end of a level or game

noun:

• guardrail; handrail; bannister; balustrade; parapet
• (a person) shining like the stars or moon; (a person) crying endlessly ［欄干・闌干］ - archaism

noun:

• pointed knife
• logging; cutting
• (beef) scraps
• starting to speak
• extraction (of a portion of a media file); splicing out