noun:

• unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items

noun:

• Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)

noun:

• ornament
• dead body used to test a blade
• unlicensed prostitute who always works out of the same cathouse

noun:

• refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month ➜ 田遊び

noun:

• starfish; sea star; asteroid; any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea
• northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)

noun:

• six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)

noun:

• flies; area over the stage of a theater (containing overhead lights, drop curtains, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］

noun:

• doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra) - Buddhism term
• spiritualism (in philosophy) ➜ 唯物

noun:

• miyairigai (Oncomelania hupensis nosophora); freshwater snail that acts as an intermediate host of the Japanese blood fluke ➜ 片山貝

noun:

• school building for housing an imperial photograph and a copy of the Rescript on Education (pre-war Japan)

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

particle:

• at (place, time); in; on; during
• to (direction, state); toward; into
• for (purpose)
• because of (reason); for; with
• by; from
• as (i.e. in the role of) ➜ として
• per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month")
• and; in addition to
• if; although - archaism

noun:

• lucky person; someone who made a lot of money (e.g. gambling or on the stock market)
• skilled batter; batter on a hot streak - Baseball term
• accident faker; someone who jumps in front of cars on purpose to extort money
• barbershop

expression / ichidan verb:

• to come to the point; to touch on the point; to address the main points

noun:

• a matter for the police; with the police involved; a brush with the law - four character idiom

noun:

• beach; seashore
• captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 揚げ浜
• Yokohama - abbreviation ➜ 横浜
• riverbank; riverside - archaism - Ōsaka dialect

adverb:

• first of all; at once; right away
• for now; for the time being

noun:

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

noun / ~の noun:

• innocence; guiltlessness; false accusation; false charge

noun:

• absence of the fact; insubstantiality; lacking substance
• insincerity; dishonesty - archaism

noun:

• heart; mind

noun / suffix:

• spirit; vitality; inner strength ➜ 愛郷心
• Chinese "Heart" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・蒼竜【そうりょう】
• friend - archaism

noun / suffix noun:

• ratio; proportion

noun:

• match; equal
• explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing) ➜ 六義
• Philippines - abbreviation ➜ 比律賓

suffix noun:

• in comparison with ... - after a noun

suffix:

• through; throughout; in the course of
• all over or throughout (e.g. a place)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• fastidiousness; enthusiasm for one thing; meticulousness; monomania; obsession
• susceptibility for a stiffening of the shoulders