noun:

• characters (in a novel, movie, etc.) ➜ 作中

expression / ~する noun:

• passing (e.g. in football) without looking - From English "no look pass"

noun:

• Odin (god in Norse mythology)
• ODIN ［オーディン］ - IT term

noun:

• coral catshark (Atelomycterus marmoratus, found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun / ~する noun:

• indulgence (e.g. in alcohol, women, etc.)
• debauchery; dissipation

noun:

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (abolished in 1995); GATT

noun:

• Ming-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 17th century) ➜ 明【みん】

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November) - archaism ➜ 酉の市

noun:

• ball not bouncing (e.g. in a catch) - Baseball term - From English "no bound"

noun:

• stallion (e.g. in horse breeding)

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

noun:

• day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)

noun:

• single kanji conversion (in an Input Method)

noun:

• eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region) ➜ 浄土宗・関東

noun:

• assistant director (in taking professional movies)

noun:

• decorating the alcove of a tea room with a hanging scroll and flowers (in more formal tea ceremonies, during only the first and second half respectively)
• style of decorating a traditional Japanese room (esp. a study) in which incense, a pair of vases and a pair of candlesticks are placed on a table in front of a trio of hanging scrolls - orig. meaning

noun:

• (enter into, be in) a state of war

noun:

• passing the physical examination as a Grade One conscript (in the former Japanese military)

noun:

• Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)

noun / ~する noun:

• springing up (in clusters); mushrooming; being highly productive

noun / ~する noun:

• soar (e.g. in price); jump; boom; sudden ride

noun:

• Eviota japonica (species of pygmy goby found in Japanese waters)

noun:

• activist (in a political movement); crusader (e.g. for women's rights)

noun:

• decorated flip-flops (esp. in Okinawa) ➜ ゴム草履【ゴムぞうり】・ビーチサンダル

noun:

• magnet school (public school offering special instruction in order to attract a more diverse student body)