noun:

• campaign against the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty (1959-60, 1970)

noun:

• baseball played without a second base (children's game)

expression:

• preaching to the deaf; wind (blowing) into a horse's ear [literal] - idiom ➜ 馬の耳に念仏

noun:

• chaperoning; monitoring someone's behaviour
• watchdog; chaperone; watcher

noun:

• mochi used for the celebration of a child's fiftieth day ➜ 五十日の祝

noun:

• wife ［妻］
• my dear; dear; honey ［妻・夫］ - archaism
• garnish (esp. one served with sashimi) - usually written using kana alone
• embellishment - usually written using kana alone

adverb:

• forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what

noun:

• catalogue with the entire works of one artist (used to check authenticity); catalogue raisonne - From French

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fail one step short of great success; to fall at the last hurdle - idiom

noun:

• one-click fraud (online fraud and extortion technique often used by spammers)

noun:

• ram (sheep) - obscure term
• used to liken one to someone who lives their life by instinct

noun:

• Yata no Kagami (the eight-span mirror; one of the Imperial regalia) ➜ 三種の神器

noun:

• new type depression; depression where one is depressed only when at work

noun:

• new type depression; depression where one is depressed only when at work

noun / ~の noun:

• acting cool; pretending to be a better person that one is; pretentious (person) - colloquialism - Kansai dialect

noun:

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

noun:

• the five Ws and one H (who, what, when, where, why and how)

noun:

• having only tiles of one suit and no honor tiles (yaku) - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 清一色

noun:

• being able to hear everything (esp. when one was not intended to)

auxiliary verb:

• indicates respect for the one performing an action and politeness to the listener - after a monosyllable imperfective form verb - archaism - female language - polite language

expression:

• blessed are the peacemakers; one should appreciate and follow the advice of a mediator - proverb ➜ 時の氏神【ときのうじがみ】・挨拶

expression / adjective:

• (so ashamed or embarrassed that) one does not know where to put oneself; feeling out of place

noun:

• one country, two systems (Chinese policy allowing for the communist mainland and capitalist areas such as Hong Kong)

noun:

• stupa-shaped stone distance indicators placed at intervals of one cho (approx. 109 meters) on a temple approach ➜ 町石

expression:

• whether you like it or not; no matter what one may do; in any event; at all events