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building consisting of individually owned units, shops, etc.

thank you (for the meal just served)

Black September (Palestinian extremist group responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics)

sapphire wedding (anniversary)

academic aptitude test (taken by Japanese university applicants between 1948 and 1954)

sound used for censoring words or phrases (on TV, radio, etc.)

military parade

keeping multiple species of fish (or other aquatic animals) in the same tank

bottomless

spending heavily on virtual goods or premium features (in a video game, on a social networking service, etc.)

National Institute of Floricultural Science

heads of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government

abruptly hanging up the phone while the other person is still talking

searching for and photography at locations used as settings for anime, manga, etc.

The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics

International Federation for Victory over Communism (group affiliated with the former Unification Church)

Encyclopedia Nipponica

posted guide with information about each horse (name, pedigree, past performance, etc.)

Gunma Prefectural Women's University

free software (open-source software that can be used, modified, and redistributed without restriction)

Nippon Urban Management and Local Government Research Association

to tear

estimation of the likelihood of a given tile remaining in the wall based on discarded tiles

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Shūji Terayama)

compression (caused by tight-fitting clothing, e.g. compression socks)

Streisand effect (unintentionally increasing public awareness of information as a result of trying to suppress it)

private educational institution to aid correspondence high school students

The Monkey and the Crab (folktale)

what the?

Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology