expression:

• "the shoemaker's children go barefoot" [figurative]; the dyer wears white [literal]; specialists often fail to apply their skills to themselves

noun:

• habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency
• peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; mannerism
• crease; wrinkle; curl; kink

noun:

• bell (often a large hanging bell); chime ➜ 鉦

noun:

• bell (often globular)

noun:

• condominium (often mid-rise or high-rise concrete); apartment building; apartment house; apartment; flat - From English "mansion"

noun:

• the capital city (often Tokyo) area (typically within 50 km of city's centre) (center)

noun:

• deviation value (usu. scaled to mean of 50, standard deviation of 10, and often used for academic grades); deviation; T-score; standard score

noun:

• side street (often parallel to a main street); back street; alley

noun:

• boxed lunch bought at a station (often a local specialty)
• variety of sexual position - vulgar

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to look after (often medically); to take care of

noun:

• muffler (often fur); scarf; comforter

noun:

• hot pot stew made with offal, vegetables and (often) miso - Food term ➜ もつ

expression:

• (particularly) when ... (often in phrases like "the bus just has to be on-time when we are late"); (only) for ...; if we are restricting the discussion to...; in the particular case of

noun:

• plate (often as in "tectonic plate")

noun / ~する noun:

• distortion (often used for caricature in manga, etc.); deformation - From French "deformer"

noun:

• firm-sided backpack made of leather, etc. (used by Japanese elementary schoolchildren, often red for girls and black for boys) - From Dutch "ransel"

noun:

• Japanese name (often of plants and animals, and written in kana)

noun:

• black ships (i.e. Western ships, often painted with tar, that came to Japan in the 16th century)
• product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market, etc.

noun:

• ladies' bicycle (of a kind often used by housewives, usu. with a basket in front); granny bike ➜ チャリ

noun:

• informant (often with regard to survey respondents)

noun:

• mountain-dwelling turtledove (often oriental turtle dove) ➜ キジバト・アオバト

noun:

• front company set up to hide someone's true profession by pretending to employ them (often used by call girls) ➜ ダミー会社

adverb:

• sound of something small rolling once (often into a hole) - onomatopoeia
• easily
• suddenly
• completely (e.g. forgetting); utterly
• disappointing
• curling up into the fetal position; going to sleep suddenly

noun:

• cat grass (often Avena sativa); catgrass

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to kick flying (often a person in sport, martial arts, etc.)