noun:

• buying (and immediately consuming) sweets

expression:

• the poetic feeling of a late spring scene (with flowers scattering and birds chirping) - obscure term - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• collecting (plants and animals); gathering; capturing; catching

noun:

• booklet constituting an informal living will (containing wishes regarding one's hospitalization or funeral, and perhaps one's life story, messages to loved ones, etc.) - From English "ending note"

noun:

• megapode (any bird of family Megapodiidae, incl. brush turkeys and mallee fowl); mound builder

noun:

• nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris, species of catshark in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

expression / interjection:

• Homage to the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝【さんぼう】

noun:

• agency (government department between a ministry and a bureau under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• warm soba noodles (esp. for dipping, either served after being boiled, or cooled and then rewarmed) - Food term ➜ 盛り蕎麦

noun:

• hairdresser (for sumo wrestlers and actors); wigmaker (for actors)
• hairdressing room (Edo period Kabuki)

noun:

• yoko-shiho-gatame (judo hold in which the opponent's shoulders and hips are pinned) - Martial Arts term

noun / ~する noun:

• video taping (and storing)

noun:

• director (of the ritsuryo-period Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office) ➜ 弾正台

noun:

• chartering broker (arranges customs clearance and shipping details for trade goods); freight forwarding agent - abbr. of 乙種海運仲立業 - abbreviation

noun:

• black-barred surgeonfish (Acanthurus polyzona, species of tang known only from Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands)

noun:

• bracelet (made of stringed jewels or bells and worn at the elbow) - archaism
• bracer (for the elbow of an archer)

noun:

• school seasonal (train and bus) ticket

noun:

• columbite (mineral combining niobite and tantalite)

noun:

• obsession with radiation effects (esp. after the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima reactor problems); person obsessed with radiation; radiation brain [literal] - humorous term - colloquialism

noun:

• ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Lockheed P-3 Orion (anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft); P3C

~の noun / noun:

• automatic (e.g. door, gun, etc.)

noun:

• eradication of malignant spirits (esp. used in fantasy and science fiction)

noun:

• three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)

noun:

• Sauropsida (branch of amniotes that includes reptiles, birds and non-avian dinosaurs)