noun:

• end-of-year settling of accounts

expression:

• person who is ignorant of the real world; frog in a well [literal]

noun:

• place of death

noun:

• study of psychic phenomena; psychics

noun:

• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; MEXT - abbreviation ➜ 文部科学省

noun:

• type of bed linen resembling a large beach towel and used to cover oneself in hot weather - From English "towel blanket"

noun:

• lack of blood flow; poor circulation

noun:

• Distributed Denial of Service attacks - IT term

noun:

• purge of public officials

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

noun:

• large fan-shaped object held by an attendant and used to conceal the face of a noble, etc.

expression:

• wretched is the lot of a government official; it is better to work for oneself than to work for someone else - proverb

noun:

• (written) treatment of current events

noun:

• native of Osaka ➜ 江戸っ子

noun:

• reading and meaning of a kanji

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of accounting) ➜ 六知事

expression / noun:

• passage of the seasons; change of the four seasons

noun:

• system of government; government structure

noun:

• Okinawan festival held in the honour of the sea gods (honor)

noun:

• draft of a poem

noun:

• figure of speech ➜ 修辞技法

noun:

• explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger (Jan. 28, 1986); Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

noun:

• Department of Education

expression:

• man is not made of stone; man is made of flesh and blood - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• silent reading of sutra ➜ 読経