noun:

• high decorated building
• picture-perfect mansion; stately home that looks as if it were from a painting

noun:

• country's official writing system; native script
• kana ➜ 仮名【かな】
• kanji that originated in Japan (as opposed to China) ➜ 漢字

noun:

• Hanlon's razor ("Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity") - obscure term ➜ オッカムの剃刀

noun:

• Japanese huchen (Hucho perryi) (salmonoid fish found in Hokkaido that grows up to 1.5 meters)

expression / adjective:

• (so ashamed or embarrassed that) one does not know where to put oneself; feeling out of place ➜ 身の置き所がない

noun / ~する noun:

• act of praying or performing an incantation so that a bad dream does not come true

noun:

• facility that serves meals and provides rooms for short-stay or overnight guests - From English "restaurant hotel"

noun:

• advance payment on behalf of a third party (with expectation that it will be reimbursed)

noun:

• product past its prime; TV show, video game, etc. that has jumped the shark - abbr. of 終わったコンテンツ - abbreviation - slang

~の noun:

• general; ordinary; usual

adverb:

• normally; generally; usually

noun:

• local train; train that stops at every station - abbreviation ➜ 普通列車

noun:

• castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord

noun:

• spirochaete; spirochete - From Latin "Spirochaeta"
• Treponema pallidum (species of spirochaete that causes syphilis, bejel, pinta, and yaws) - colloquialism

noun / ~の noun:

• (so marvelous or horrible that it may be) the first and probably the last - four character idiom

noun:

• qi; mysterious life force that makes up everything
• spirits; mind
• divine atmosphere; mysterious presence

noun:

• service that goes to clients' homes to give beauty treatments - abbreviation - From English "home esthetics"

noun:

• substitute for a scheduled live broadcast of a sporting event that was rained out - four character idiom

noun:

• Country of Na (a country that existed within Japan during the Yayoi period)

noun:

• the three kleshas that poison the heart of man (desire, ill will and ignorance) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

noun:

• CAM plant (any plant, such as the pineapple, that uses crassulacean acid metabolism)

noun:

• dip (angle that the direction of a compass needle makes with the horizon)

noun:

• fabless; without fabrication facilities (esp. a semiconductor company that does not own a factory) - From English "fabless"

noun:

• shiku-kaisei city planning; city renewal that occurred in the Taisho and Meiji eras

noun:

• system that allows for the construction of highways and buildings in the same space

noun:

• blue waves; blue wave ➜ 蒼波
• hair that has lost its shine due to ageing

expression:

• I'm not so sure; I can hardly say with any finality that ...