noun:

• drinks to celebrate the New Year (sake, wine, etc.)

noun:

• apartment rented by the month - From English "monthly mansion" ➜ マンション

expression / noun:

• long sword with birds' heads carved on the pommel

noun:

• long sword with birds' heads carved on the pommel - abbreviation ➜ 鳥頭の太刀

noun:

• Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (in Japan); SCAP ➜ ＳＣＡＰ

noun:

• person doing the actual work (as opposed to management)

noun:

• Order for the Provision of Firewood and Water (1842)

noun:

• child of the times; modern kid; with-it youngster

noun:

• date on which the event is to take place

noun:

• rounding figures (e.g. to the nearest whole number)

noun / ~する noun:

• pursuing one overriding objective while forsaking all the others - four character idiom

noun:

• (falling into a) continuous decline; being on the wane - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• everything turning out fine; the whole thing being settled

noun:

• under-the-table payoff; offer of an illegal profit

expression:

• primly; with one's nose in the air; smugly

noun:

• moon palace of the Hindu god Chandra ➜ 月宮殿

noun / ~の noun:

• within the story (of a book, play, movie, etc.)

noun:

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

noun:

• mixed boarding; multiple groups using the same bus, etc.

noun:

• ISIL; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ➜ イスラム国

noun:

• Polystichum tripteron (species of the wood fern family)

~の noun / noun:

• behind-the-scenes

noun:

• the three weapons for catching criminals (Edo period) ➜ 刺股・突棒・袖搦

noun:

• Tillandsia (genus of flowering plants in the Bromeliaceae family)

noun:

• Gaultheria adenothrix (alpine shrublet in the Ericaceae family)