noun:

• minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)

noun:

• type of crime which requires a formal complaint from the victim in order to prosecute - Law term

noun / ~する noun:

• moving forward by sliding on one's knees (in the presence of high-ranking individuals)

noun:

• expression suggesting that the pace of change makes ten years back seem like ancient history - four character idiom

noun:

• offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• lady-killer; casanova; Don Juan
• kabuki actor who has mastered the art of romantic acting

noun:

• Parapoxvirus (genus of large oval shaped DNA based viruses in the family Poxviridae)

noun:

• era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi - Sumo term ➜ 北玉時代

noun:

• era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi - Sumo term

noun:

• ineptitude and inaction; being incapable of devising any appropriate measures to cope with the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• etalon (optical element with parallel surfaces used to increase the coherent length of a laser)

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of the mora 'n', primarily from verb stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 促音便

expression / adverb:

• one more; another; the other ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• not quite ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• close run; just falling short of success

noun:

• Golden Triangle (area near the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos)

noun:

• harvesting rice while it is still green
• recruiting of university students before the agreed date ➜ 青田買い【あおたがい】

noun:

• tiles used to cover nail holes in cypress bark roofing for the purpose of waterproofing

noun / ~する noun:

• beginning one's studies with something familiar and gradually increasing the depth of learning - four character idiom

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine

noun:

• off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink

noun:

• romanization (representation of foreign words using the Roman alphabet); romanized spelling

noun:

• Potsdam Declaration (July 26, 1945 statement establishing the terms of a Japanese surrender)

noun:

• twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activities

noun:

• twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activites - obscure term ➜ 十二直

noun:

• vijnapti-matrata (theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind) - Buddhism term