noun:

• Japanese lawsuit involving cases where hospitalized patients contracted Creutzfeld-Jakob disease from infected transplants

noun:

• soft, crumpled, unlacquered headwear (often worn by soldiers under their helmets from the Kamakura period onward) ➜ 烏帽子

expression:

• phrase used (usu. with accompanying crossed fingers gesture) to ward off catching 'dirtiness' from another child - children's language ➜ えんがちょ

noun:

• maar (broad, shallow volcanic crater) - From French or German "Maar"
• marc (brandy distilled from pomace wine)
• marl (unconsolidated lime-rich rock) ➜ 泥灰岩

noun:

• shoemaker spinefoot (Siganus sutor, species of rabbitfish from the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• dusky spinefoot (Siganus luridus, species of rabbitfish from the Western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• marbled spinefoot (Siganus rivulatus, species of rabbitfish from the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• balloon shark (Cephaloscyllium sufflans, species of catshark from the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• dusky batfish (Platax pinnatus, species of Western Pacific spadefish found from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia)

noun:

• stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel
• final desperate tactic - idiom

noun:

• stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel
• final desperate tactic - idiom

noun:

• paper put between newly completed prints to prevent the ink from smudging; interleaf; slip sheet

noun:

• green man; representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves

expression / noun:

• person who has lost something they used to rely on; a monkey fallen from the tree [literal] - idiom

noun:

• tangyuan; tang yuan; Chinese dumplings made from glutinous rice flour - Food term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)

noun:

• panel; scene-panel
• painted backdrop (panel at the back of a noh stage), on which a pine tree is painted - symbolically a reflection of tree at the front of the stage

godan ~う verb:

• to say enough (as much as required); to say plenty
• to say well; to say cleverly; to say elegantly
• to say often; to say frequently
• to say without shame; to say impudently - oft. as an admonition in the form of よく言うよ

expression:

• after having come this far; now that we've come this far

noun:

• victimization by media; trial by media; damage caused by exaggerated or false reporting (e.g. that one has committed a crime)

~の noun:

• half made (e.g. clothes that are already cut and basted when purchased)

noun:

• hotel that rents rooms to couples either overnight or for two hours' "rest" - From English "love hotel"

noun:

• the three realms of existence - Buddhism term ➜ 欲界・色界・無色界
• the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三千大千世界
• past, present and future existences - Buddhism term ➜ 三世【さんぜ】

suffix:

• far-off ...; distant ...

noun:

• principle holding that any matters left unresolved at the end of one Diet session are not to be carried over to the next

noun:

• mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740