noun:

• twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)

expression:

• being jealous of somebody over something but also thinking they should be sentenced to death over it (esp. of male teachers having sexual relations with their students) - slang - humorous term

noun:

• advocacy of consumer rights (product safety, accurate labelling, etc.); consumer activism; consumer advocacy ➜ 消費者主権
• consumer spending; high levels of consumption

noun:

• (time of) extreme cold
• "major cold" solar term (approx. Jan 20, roughly the coldest time of the year) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• biting midge (any insect of family Ceratopogonidae); no-see-um - obscure term ➜ 糠蚊
• plant hopper (any insect of family Delphacidae) ➜ 浮塵子

noun:

• using the Japanese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning)

noun:

• eastern Japan; Japan east of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line, i.e. east of the Chūbu region ➜ 糸魚川静岡構造線・西日本

noun:

• club of rabble-rousing reckless-driving delinquents; biker gang; group of hot rodders; biker gang member; hot rodder - colloquialism ➜ 暴走族【ぼうそうぞく】

noun:

• advocacy of consumer rights (product safety, accurate labelling, etc.); consumer activism; consumer advocacy ➜ コンシューマリズム
• consumer spending; high levels of consumption ➜ コンシューマリズム

noun:

• colour of water (esp. in rivers, lakes, sea)
• scenery of rivers, lakes, etc.
• light blue; pale blue; aqua ➜ 水色【みずいろ】

noun:

• first day of the month - usu. 一日 or １日
• first ten days of the lunar month ［ついたち］ - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year) ➜ どんど

noun:

• Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year) ➜ どんど

noun:

• deep pool; deep water; abyss ➜ 瀬
• depths (e.g. of despair, etc.); grip (e.g. of death)

noun:

• great and splendid land (of Yamato)
• spiritual center of the land; one's spiritual home
• excellent location; splendid place

noun:

• double slap in the face (second slap administered by the return motion of the back of the hand)

noun:

• 15th day of the 8th lunar month - usu. 中秋
• eighth month of the lunar calendar ［なかあき］ - obsolete term ➜ 葉月

noun:

• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (formerly Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications)

noun:

• giant purple butterfly (species of nymphalid butterfly, Sasakia charonda)
• Rhododendron oomurasaki (species of purple azalea)

noun:

• certificate of legal capacity to contract marriage; certification of one's legal capacity to be married

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year)

expression:

• as of the end of (today, this month, etc.); to make (today, etc.) the last (day) ➜ 声を限りに

noun:

• Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996) ➜ 社会民主党【しゃかいみんしゅとう】