noun:

• thus I hear (quote from the sutras); these ears have heard - four character idiom

noun:

• "salon" where the hostesses are supposedly part-timers with other jobs - from アルバイト and salon - abbreviation

noun:

• rotating warning light similar to the one on a patrol car - abbreviation - From English "patrol light" ➜ パトカー

noun:

• prescoring (recording the music or sound effects before filming a scene) - abbreviation

noun:

• flour paste cake in the form of a tube

noun:

• member country of the executive committee in an international organization (organisation)

noun:

• ANZUS Treaty (Australia, New Zealand and the United States)

noun:

• cementum (hard connective tissue covering the tooth root); cement

noun:

• (decision to) censure (as issued by the upper house of parliament)

noun:

• Tartary (various tribes that historically inhabited the area north of China)

expression:

• (with) only the clothes one happens to wear

noun:

• books printed in Japan by the Jesuits (1590-1612)

noun:

• three special awards for wrestlers at the end of a tournament - Sumo term ➜ 殊勲賞・敢闘賞・技能賞

noun:

• ritual stomping in unison on the final day of a tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• wrestler who keeps going up and down the rankings - Sumo term

noun:

• ring entering ceremony in presence of the emperor or crown prince - Sumo term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a ceremonial hand movement when receiving the monetary award - Sumo term

expression:

• 10 year career in the highest division is enough for anyone - Sumo term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• memories of the past events (being, becoming) far and distant - archaism - four character idiom ➜ 往事渺茫

noun:

• the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• suddenly seeing the light; achieving full enlightenment all of a sudden - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• changing one's dress (e.g. at the wedding reception)

noun:

• annual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court)

noun:

• game (contest) held in the presence of a lord (daimyo, shogun) - four character idiom