noun:

• literary (and the arts) column

noun / ~の noun:

• pia mater (membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord)

noun:

• spring day (which seems long and quiet) - archaism

noun:

• new breed of humans (used to refer to the younger generation, who have different ideals and sensibilities)

noun:

• ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator) - IT term

noun:

• blacktip sawtail catshark (Galeus sauteri, found in Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines)

noun:

• Acanthurus (type genus of surgeonfishes and tangs in the family Acanthuridae which have a pair of sharp spines on either side of the base of the tail)

pre-noun adjectival:

• The Great (e.g. in film and book titles); The Grand

noun:

• body drop throw (sweeping the opponent's legs and throwing them forward) - Sumo term

noun:

• Punic Wars (Rome and Carthage) - From Latin

noun / ~の noun:

• living idly (i.e. doing nothing but eating and sleeping) - colloquialism

noun:

• the six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure and love, and hatred)

noun:

• Koushin'etsu region (including Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata prefectures)

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ くっつき虫

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross)

noun / ~する noun:

• (bowing and) greeting ➜ お辞儀
• declining; refusing - archaism

noun:

• hammer (of a gun) ➜ 撃鉄

noun:

• pinnipeds (seals and walruses)

noun:

• combined race (skiing event with cross country and ski jumping)

noun:

• general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of North Korea); secretary-general - obscure term ➜ 書記長・総書記

noun:

• secretly slitting one's belly (and only eventually revealing one's mortal wound) (in kabuki, bunraku, etc.)

noun:

• single crime consisting of multiple independent crimes (i.e. robbery, which consists of theft and threats or use of violence)

noun:

• any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• moving slowly (and dull-wittedly) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term