noun:

• a drop in the ocean (bucket) - four character idiom

noun:

• official promotional photo of a musician, model, etc. - from アーティスト写真 - abbreviation

noun:

• fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories - abbreviation ➜ お姉系ギャル

noun:

• being devoid of consideration for human beings - four character idiom

noun:

• termination phase of a transaction - IT term

noun:

• discolouration of a mineral due to impurities (discoloration) ➜ 他色

noun:

• preserving in salt; salting down

noun:

• cleaning dirt or sand out of the digestive system

noun:

• right wing organization, esp. one using "black van" propaganda trucks

noun:

• the "ya" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ya, yu, yo)

noun:

• the market trend in the near future - four character idiom

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• on the brink of
• morning and evening; day and night

noun:

• southerly wind that blows when the cherry trees are in bloom - obscure term

adverbial noun / noun:

• in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability - four character idiom

noun:

• one-piece garment with snaps up the front, sort of like a jumpsuit for babies - From English "baby all"

noun:

• Treaty of Shimoda (1855); treaty initiating official relations between Russia and Japan

expression / ichidan verb:

• to wear the mantle of (borrowed) authority and misuse it

expression / ichidan verb:

• to vary the pace of one's life ➜ 減り張り【めりはり】

noun:

• skilled engineer (mechanic) who is clumsy in all other matters; person who gets a great kick out of tinkering with anything mechanical - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• dying of cancer

noun:

• calling sound of the lesser cuckoo ➜ てっぺんかけたか

noun:

• impact of publicity or propaganda

noun:

• stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage ➜ 白洲

expression:

• in brief; to put it succinctly

noun:

• disintegration of a cell nucleus