noun:

• letter explaining the reasons for cutting down an alleged villain; assassin's written vindication of his killing

noun:

• balance on goods and services

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to bask in the sun lying flat on one's belly ➜ 甲羅干し

noun / ~する noun:

• spending unreasonably on in-game purchases - slang

noun:

• Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch; Platform Sutra - Buddhism term

noun:

• tip (end) of the nose

noun:

• pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun / ~の noun:

• air-cooled

noun:

• gazing at Mount Fuji on New Year's day

noun:

• the Philippines

noun:

• the next issue

noun:

• eldest grandson of an Emperor in the line of descent

noun:

• swimming in the middle of winter or the cold season

noun:

• light air (Beaufort scale)

noun:

• five gates of mindfulness: worship, praise, vows, observation, prayers for the dead - Buddhism term

noun:

• patterned cloth laid on a table or Buddhist altar; antependium

expression:

• The time has come (for, to, when...); The time being ripe (for) - four character idiom

noun:

• water left in buckets on the roadside during the summer for travellers

noun:

• the flour(-milling) industry

noun:

• interference in the domestic affairs of another country - four character idiom

noun:

• the Kurile Current

expression:

• one calamity followed close on the heels of another; out of the frying pan into the fire; tiger in front, wolf in the back [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)

noun:

• relation in the second degree

noun:

• game or series of games between the first and second place teams - Sports term