noun:

• China and the Soviet Union ➜ ソ連【ソれん】

prefix:

• Sino-Soviet; Soviet-Chinese ➜ 中ソ国境紛争【ちゅうソこっきょうふんそう】

noun:

• cardboard tube for pouring concrete into on building sites

noun:

• the study of the calendar

noun:

• principle of living only for the moment - four character idiom

noun:

• war started or ended with the push of a single 'launch' button - obscure term - From English "button war"

noun:

• protection against the tide

noun:

• resignation from a company on marriage

noun:

• The Pleiades

noun:

• ring entering ceremony in presence of the emperor or crown prince - Sumo term

noun:

• Jack the Ripper

noun / ~する noun:

• taking pictures (for a wedding, etc.) prior to the event

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to drag on; to be delayed

noun:

• focal point of a lens behind the subject ➜ ピント

noun:

• anniversary of the Great Kanto earthquake

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

noun:

• ritual to banish the sleep demon (esp. in Tōhoku)

noun:

• fish served with white rice on New Year's eve ➜ 年取り

noun:

• lake shaped like the kanji "heart" character (traditional Japanese gardens)

noun:

• free on board; FOB

noun:

• paper dolls floated downriver on March 3rd

noun:

• cast-on stitch

noun / ~する noun:

• (system of) extending complicity for a crime to the criminal's family members

noun:

• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• company president, with responsibility to represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星