ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to leap out (e.g. onto the stage); to spring out
• to jump (e.g. into first place); to shoot (e.g. to the top); to come to the forefront; to suddenly become prominent

noun / ~する noun:

• Galapagosization; widespread design of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species

noun:

• domination of the world; world hegemony; world domination ➜ 世界征服

noun / adjectival noun:

• shaft end; axial end; end of the shaft

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to raise; to rear; to bring up
• to train; to teach; to educate
• to promote the growth of; to nurture; to foster; to develop

noun:

• sword hilt shaped similar to the handle of a vajra - archaism ➜ 金剛杵
• plain, wooden sword hilt (as opposed to those wrapped in sharkskin)

noun:

• phosphorescent lights seen at sea at night; lights that can be seen on the altar of gods, intended as an offering

noun:

• 15th day of the 1st, 7th and 10th lunar months ➜ 上元・中元・下元
• heaven, earth and man
• 1st January; New Year's Day

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• ternary - Chemistry term

suffix:

• -smell; stinking of ➜ カビ臭
• smacking of; hinting of

noun:

• starting; engaging
• expenses; costs - esp. 掛かり, 掛り
• attack (esp. a corner approach in the game of go) - esp. 掛かり, 掛り; often as カカリ ➜ カカリ
• barb
• charge; duty; person in charge; official; clerk ［掛かり・掛り］ - esp. for government offices, railways, etc. ➜ 係【かかり】

noun:

• embossing a pattern; repoussé; hammering
• drum signaling the end of a performance ➜ 打ち出し太鼓
• serve (e.g. in tennis); drive (in golf)
• printout; printing out ➜ 打ち出す【うちだす】

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); (campaign) comfort women [literal] - euphemism

expression:

• if two ride upon a horse, one must sit behind; when Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war; two great rivals cannot coexist - proverb

noun:

• official notice
• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ［お触れ・御触れ］ - abbreviation ➜ お触書

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to censure; to criticize; to criticise; to rebuke; to defy; to disobey - archaism
• to fashion after; to make in the form of; to imitate - archaism

noun:

• resuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year

adjectival noun / noun:

• strict; hidebound; inflexible; being a sticker for the rules; sticking hard and fast to the rules - four character idiom

expression:

• the guilty are audacious; show remorse when you are in the wrong - proverb

expression:

• zeal is a bad servant; the person who chases a deer does not see the mountain [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Galeorhinus (genus whose only member is the school shark, Galeorhinus galeus, in the family Triakidae)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be famous; to be celebrated; to be worthy of the name ➜ 名にし負う【なにしおう】

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be famous; to be celebrated; to be worthy of the name - emphatic form of 名に負う ➜ 名に負う【なにおう】

noun:

• disparity between values of votes in different constituencies; measure of malapportionment of electorates

noun / ~の noun:

• inside the House (Diet)
• inside the hospital

noun:

• poor person; pauper; the poor; the indigent