expression:

• please take care of yourself; please be careful not to... (concerning one's health or well-being)

noun:

• death with dignity; natural death (as opposed to extending one's life unnaturally with life support)

noun:

• Obamacare; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (U.S. statute, 2010)

noun:

• namahage; folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as them on New Year's Eve and frighten children)

noun / ~する noun:

• becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to strike someone a blow; to bring down (a stick on someone's head)

noun:

• agency; (attorney's) authority of representation

noun:

• barehanded; having no wealth or position to rely on (aside from one's own resourcefulness) (when embarking on something) - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stoop; to bend (e.g. one's knees)

noun:

• treating someone (to food or drink); entertaining someone (as one's guest) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• avoidance of responsibility; shirking (one's) responsibility - four character idiom

noun:

• secretary-general; general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of the Democratic Republic of North Korea and the People's Republic of China) ➜ 主席

adjective:

• does not pay; not worth (one's) while

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• goggling; rolling (one's eyes) - onomatopoeia

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to chew thoroughly; to bite (e.g. one's lip)
• to reflect upon; to digest

noun / ~する noun:

• reporting; returning (one's findings to a person)

noun:

• prevalence of arbitrariness; rife with arbitrary decisions (acting on one's own authority) - four character idiom

noun:

• radio equipment; facility that can transmit radio waves (as defined in Japan's radio law)

noun:

• deceptive advertising; misleading advertisement (presenting one's product as being better or cheaper than it really is)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep in pace with; to keep up with; to follow (someone's thought); to understand

noun:

• training method in sports, etc. where one imagines how a scenario would play out; mental rehearsal; mental preparation; visualization (for practicing a skill in one's mind)(practising); practicing under simulated conditions (e.g. while watching a video); mental dry run - From English "image training"

noun:

• ration-point coupon; traffic violation ticket (for which penalty points are applied to one's licence)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to satisfy (one); to meet (one's) desire

noun:

• Shudra; Sudra (member of India's worker caste)

noun:

• separates; things forming units by themselves (esp. women's outer garments, e.g. skirt and jumper) ➜ コーディネート
• two-piece bathing suit