noun:

• emphasizing one's good qualities; presenting oneself in a favorable light - From English "self-produce" ➜ 自己演出【じこえんしゅつ】

noun / ~する noun:

• obtaining agreement by consultation; matters settled in an interview

noun:

• gathering of men and women who sang courtship songs to each other and danced; dancing and singing feast of young men and women in ancient Japan - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to expose to the wind; to dry (something) in the wind

noun:

• simplified form (of a kanji); any of 22 simplified non-joyo kanji variants commonly used in print ➜ 常用漢字

noun:

• this school; the school in question

noun:

• one's own thing; thing held in one's hand(s)
• one's speciality; one's forte; one's strong point - idiom ➜ お手の物

noun:

• cosmic bowling; bowling in a bowling alley that is lit up like a disco with lots of flashing lights

noun:

• interoffice mail; in-house mail - Business term

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• bloody; gory; covered in copious amounts of blood; blood-drenched
• desperate; frantic

noun:

• expansion (in space) of a sales area; increase in the number of beds (in a hospital, etc.)

expression:

• the end of the world; the world is beyond saving; there's no hope for the future; this degenerate age

noun:

• assistant judge; judge-in-training

noun:

• local site; location for making or filming a movie

noun:

• nursery school sleepover; one night sleepover at school in summer vacation of last year of nursery school

expression:

• neither one thing nor the other; too short for a belt, too long for a sleeve tie [literal]

expression / noun:

• group of independents; usu. informal grouping of independent politicians in the National Diet or in prefectural assemblies

noun:

• weather wheel; pillar found near graveyards and temples with a wheel attached to it that can be used to communicate with the dead, as well as for divination
• sun pillar ➜ 太陽柱

noun:

• hanakkori (Brassica napus cv. Hanakkori); hybrid of choy sum and broccoli invented in Yamaguchi prefecture

noun / adjectival noun:

• persuasiveness; skilled in the art of persuasion - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to begin to know; to know for the first time

noun:

• sudoku; number puzzle in which digits may only occur once per block - from 数字は独身に限る

noun:

• being too clever (for one's own good); getting done in by one's own cleverness

~の noun / noun:

• young; blooming (age); in the prime of youth; marriageable - usu. of women

noun:

• antiquarian bookshop; store for rare and old books