noun:

• a service station for cars that run on alternative fuels

noun:

• style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform - abbreviation - From English "Yokohama traditional"

noun:

• storyboard (film, television); design for a series of movie scenes - abbreviation ➜ コンティニュイティ

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese)

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean) - derogatory term

noun:

• seeds
• producer-driven solutions; ideas, products, services, etc. proposed by a company to consumers

noun:

• beshimi; noh mask with a slanted mouth, bulging eyes and large nostrils

noun:

• chart used to keep track of a wrestler's records during the tournament - Sumo term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have training bouts with one's junior during practice (of a senior wrestler) - Sumo term

noun:

• (waiting) impatiently; (spending) many a weary day; each moment seeming like an eternity - four character idiom

noun:

• double-dealer; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• dripping ink marks; a work of calligraphy being written in bold and vivid strokes - four character idiom

noun:

• (a house) looking deserted with few visitors; sparrow net in front of the gate [literal] - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost) - archaism - four character idiom

noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• giving off a foul odor; the air being heavy with an offensive smell - four character idiom

noun:

• a sense of release (as if one had wings and were riding on air) - four character idiom

noun:

• a good chance coming along; the time has come (for, to, when...); opportunity knocking - four character idiom

noun:

• center of a noh stage

noun / ~の noun:

• Shōchū era (1324.12.9-1326.4.26) ［しょうちゅう］

noun:

• money needed to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage ➜ 身請け

noun:

• summer greeting cards containing a lottery ticket, sold every year starting in June - sometimes かもめ～る

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction

expression:

• cannot live even a minute without someone or something; meaning the world to one

expression:

• giving something a try because one has nothing to lose ➜ 駄目元

noun:

• Cain complex (jealousy of a sibling, ultimately leading to hatred)

noun:

• plan to overcome an obstacle or break out of a deadlock; breakthrough solution