noun:

• word to soften awkward topics (esp. refusal in business conversation, e.g. "I am afraid that ...") - e.g. 申し訳ありませんが、あいにく ➜ クッションワード

noun:

• Indian song and dance (introduced to Japan by the Chams in approx. 736 CE)

noun:

• crime committed together by two or more people (in which each is known as a co-principal)

noun:

• (being in) high spirits

noun:

• Pollux (star in the constellation Gemini); Beta Geminorum - Astronomy term

expression / noun:

• (child in the) terrible twos

noun:

• ash leveler (use in a brazier)

noun:

• spelling mistake (usually in a foreign language) - From English "spell miss"

noun:

• Japanese reading of a kanji (sometimes esp. in ref. to readings that do not correspond to the orig. Chinese meaning of the kanji)

noun:

• redbelly tilapia (Tilapia zillii, fish of the family Cichlidae found in Africa and Eurasia)

~す verb (precursor to modern する) / intransitive verb:

• to lie down (in bed); to take to one's bed - archaism ➜ 臥する

noun:

• Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

noun:

• scoophead (Sphyrna media, species of little-known hammerhead shark found in tropical waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific)

noun / ~する noun:

• male-to-female genderswap (in fan art and fan fiction) - slang ➜ 男体化

noun:

• Wotan (god in German and Anglo-Saxon mythology); Wodan ➜ オーディン

noun:

• Canopus (star in the constellation Carina); Alpha Carinae - Astronomy term

expression / noun:

• (child in the) terrifying threes

interjection:

• ready... (as in "ready, go!")

noun:

• lip reading (esp. in context of deaf people); lipreading; speech reading; speechreading ➜ 読唇術

noun:

• half a point (esp. in go)

noun:

• small onion (ca 4 cm in diameter)

noun:

• Procyon (star in the constellation Canis Minor); Alpha Canis Minoris - Astronomy term

noun:

• round of 16 (in a tournament) - Sports term

noun:

• fire brigade chief (in Edo); chief fireman - archaism

expression:

• (in) each of the houses of the Japanese parliament