noun:

• breaking up a match on doctor's orders (in boxing, etc.) - From English "doctor stop"
• being ordered by one's doctor to give up such habits as drinking, smoking, overeating, etc.

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year) - obscure term ➜ 子の日の遊び

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand on tiptoe; to rise in the world; to become arrogant

noun:

• Shōwa restoration; Showa restoration; call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s

noun:

• down one out; one down

noun:

• which one
• one of; any of

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:

• to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to communicate (with) ➜ 通じる
• to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to get through to
• to be understood; to be comprehended
• to be honored; to be good
• to be well versed in; to be well-informed
• to communicate clandestinely; to keep in touch (e.g. with the enemy)
• to form a liaison; to be intimate

noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:

• resident in Japan (of a foreigner); situated in Japan (e.g. of an embassy)

noun:

• Korean living in Japan - abbreviation - sensitive ➜ 在日韓国人・在日朝鮮人

noun:

• picking up a bowl with one's right hand which is already holding one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette) - obscure term

noun:

• Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)

expression / interjection / adverb:

• I see; that's right; indeed

adverb / noun:

• truth; reality
• sincerity; honesty; integrity; fidelity
• that's right - used when recalling forgotten information, suddenly changing the subject, etc. - archaism

adverbial noun / noun:

• continuously; continually; without a break
• next; then; after that

expression:

• what with this and that; for a number of reasons ➜ 色々

interjection:

• don't worry about it; never mind; that's OK - esp. in sports - From English "don't mind"

noun:

• cynicism (of mankind); belief that human nature is fundamentally evil Antonym: 性善説

adjective:

• unknown; strange

interjection:

• I don't care; that's irrelevant; whatever

adverb:

• strange to say; strangely enough; it is a wonder that

noun:

• eating house; restaurant that serves simple food

noun:

• disastrous flooding
• kelpie; water demon that brings floods or disasters

noun:

• internal clock that is always correct - From English "just clock"

noun:

• splitter (device that splits and reassembles signals from different frequencies) ➜ 分波器

noun:

• splitter (device that splits and reassembles signals from different frequencies) ➜ スプリッター

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• vacant and unthinking
• something that should be there is not

noun:

• creole (pidgin that has become a mother tongue)