noun:

• Democratic Party (esp. DPJ or US Democratic Party)

noun / suffix noun:

• your honor (honour); his (or her) honor (honour) - honorific language

noun:

• end of the year or season; year end

noun:

• poor village; our own (little or poor) village

noun:

• fire-walking (walking over fire or burning coals)

noun:

• one's star; one's fortune or destiny

noun / ~する noun:

• change of name or title; change of era

noun:

• something; something or other; so-and-so ➜ 何とか彼とか

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to trample down; to crush underfoot; to kick down
• to avoid paying (e.g. a debt); to jump (a bill); to bilk; to shirk

noun:

• tank for holding excreta (often used for fertilizer) (fertiliser); night soil vat or reservoir; cesspool

noun:

• bittern; concentrated solution of salts (esp. magnesium chloride) left over after the crystallization of seawater or brine

noun:

• pilloried criminal exposed to public view; public scorn or humiliation; person shamed in front of others

noun:

• dispel (esp. magic or potion used to return one's character to normal status in an RPG, etc.)

noun:

• large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting) - From English "catch copy"

noun:

• intelligent design (theory that life or the universe must have been designed by an intelligent being)

noun / ~の noun:

• those (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener, or something understood without naming it directly) ➜ 彼【あれ】
• they (of people) - used to refer to one's equals or inferiors - archaism

noun:

• Chiloscyllium (genus of carpet sharks or bamboo sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with long snouts and subterminal nostrils)

noun:

• sailing windward
• land division in the Ryukyu Kingdom equivalent to modern prefectures (but the size of cities or towns) - obsolete term ➜ 村

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】・ピー柿【ピーかき】

noun:

• short arched (traditionally bamboo) fence around walls of traditional townhouses, esp. in Kyoto (protects lower walls from fouling or damage)

noun:

• obstruction markings (red or yellow and white markings on structures taller than 60 meters in accordance with Japanese aviation law)

noun:

• taking multiple medications; taking medicine and certain foods together or in close proximity (which should be avoided)

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to