noun:

• Democratic Party of Japan - slang - derogatory term

noun:

• servant in charge of footwear

noun:

• area on the concave side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago ➜ 外帯
• area of southwestern Japan north of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本内帯

noun:

• the art of war; martial arts; military arts - archaism
• military force; the sword
• valor; bravery
• military officer; military man

noun:

• part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the meaning (as opposed to the pronunciation) ➜ 音符

noun:

• school of painting

noun:

• law of cause and effect; principle of causality

noun:

• deeds of arms

noun:

• ambulatory vending of snacks in a theater or stadium (theatre)

noun:

• portrait of a tournament winner - Sumo term

noun:

• (decadent) music of the state of Zheng

noun:

• Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to ask a question of (a person)

noun:

• game played as a form of punishment by the loser of a contest

noun:

• way of life

expression / noun:

• number of possible outcomes; number of ways (e.g. of arranging something)

noun:

• dismissal of class (at the end of the day) ➜ 放課後
• recess (at school); break - Nagoya dialect

noun:

• earthenware toy portraying a monkey sitting on top of a deer (often a bell)

noun:

• charcoal burned in an earthen kiln ➜ 土竈炭

noun:

• monk; priest - Buddhism term

noun:

• simultaneous contemplation of the threefold truth (form of Tendai meditation) - Buddhism term ➜ 三諦

noun:

• the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三悪道【さんあくどう】
• three evils (prostitution, drugs and venereal diseases) ［さんあく］

noun:

• Kantei style of calligraphy

noun / ~する noun:

• change of position; displacement

noun:

• neutral theory of molecular evolution