noun:

• failing to recognize; failing to recognise; mistaking for

expression:

• be that the case, do so; do as you please; in any case

expression / adverb:

• within eyeshot; within sight; in view

noun / ~の noun:

• being carried out; being put into practice; in operation

noun:

• Northern Limit Line; North Limit Line; NLL; demarcation line in the Yellow Sea between North Korea and South Korea

noun:

• yamanba; manba; girl or young woman adhering to a fashion trend often characterized by extremely gaudy and colourful facial make up, heavily tanned skin and hair dyed in a bright hue - colloquialism ➜ 山姥・ガングロ

noun:

• smallpox demon; smallpox devil; deity to whom one prays for immunity to smallpox

noun:

• self-styled Zen philosophy; sciolism; dabbling in Zen ➜ 野狐禅

noun:

• Galapagos phenomenon; Galapagos syndrome; tendency of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) to be designed specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species ➜ ガラパゴス化

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention ➜ 相槌【あいづち】

expression:

• simply put; putting it simply; in short

noun:

• sasumata; man catcher; two-pronged weapon for catching criminals

noun:

• ti; si; 7th note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

adverb:

• one after another; one after the other; in rotation

noun / ~する noun:

• exchanging one after the other; changing repeatedly

suffix:

• (strongly emphatic) too preoccupied or busy to even think of ...; ... is out of the question; this is not an occasion for

adverb:

• evenly; equably; in an uniform and orderly fashion

noun:

• misedashi; debut of an apprentice geisha; ceremony in which a shikomi becomes a maiko ➜ 仕込み【しこみ】・舞子【まいこ】

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• lonely (place); remote; in the middle of nowhere

conjunction:

• and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that

noun:

• omasum; psalterium; third compartment of the stomach in ruminants

~の noun / noun:

• staunch; hardcore; dyed-in-the-wool

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• continuously; unbroken; at great length; in minute detail

noun:

• carrying (on one's shoulder); bearing; shouldering; taking responsibility for
• bucket carried on either end of a pole - abbreviation ➜ 担い桶

suffix noun:

• keep ...-ing; have been ...-ing; leaving (something) on; leaving (something) still in use - negative nuance, with the state being improper, unpleasant, etc. - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ っぱなし

noun / ~の noun:

• (dental) alveolus; (dental) alveoli; socket in the jaw containing the root of a tooth