noun:

• Ministry of Culture (e.g. in China)

noun:

• punch-style can opener (punches a round or V-shaped hole in a can of liquid)

noun:

• remaining lives (in video games)

noun:

• imperial edict to confer nobility titles (in ancient China)

noun:

• first volume (in set); volume one; book one ➜ 下巻・中巻

noun:

• Copper Age (period in which metal tools started to be used alongside stone tools)

noun:

• (primarily in shogi or go) response; countermeasure; counter-measure

noun:

• punctuality (in reference to public transport); reliability

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be possible (in terms of time, money, etc.); to be able (to do); to fit (schedule, budget)

ichidan verb:

• to writhe (in agony)

noun:

• PASMO (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train and bus ticket in the greater Tokyo region and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ スイカ

noun:

• pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence)
• punctuation - abbreviation ➜ 句読点
• way of reading (esp. kanbun)

ichidan verb:

• to throw up (in the air)

noun:

• constant (esp. in logic)

noun:

• filling neutral points (in go); filling dame points

noun:

• the six articles of faith (in Islam) ➜ 六信五行

noun:

• subquest (in a video game); sub quest

noun:

• position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); open interest; outstanding account; sales or purchase contract

noun:

• singing of insects (esp. in autumn); sound of insects ➜ 虫の音

noun:

• still image (in animation)

noun:

• pomade (in stick form)
• tic ➜ チック症

suffix:

• -tic - colloquialism ➜ 的【てき】

noun:

• Jizo Festival (child-focused religious festival, in which Jizo statues are decorated, esp. in Kyoto; 23-24 August)

noun:

• emergency meeting of the upper house of the Diet (in response to dissolution of the lower house)

noun:

• eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology)