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"new" sumo (for women) conducted on a mat, wearing leotards instead of a mawashi
Erabu black-banded sea krait (Laticauda semifasciata)
(dispensation of) free medicine
(machine's) service life
negotiable securities
secretly hoarded goods (esp. those belonging to the Japanese military at the end of WWII)
lily magnolia (Magnolia quinquepeta, Magnolia liliiflora)
(fish) appearing fresh but actually gone bad
student preparing to re-take initially failed university entrance examinations
dictionary with Japanese definitions of kanji and kanji compounds
shallow thinking
consumer's price
cakes heaped in a container for a shrine offering
stomach acid that flows backwards into the mouth (due to acid reflux)
reflective power
barely keeping a business going (analogy that a bicycle falls over when its wheels cease rotating)
high-class Edo-period pleasure house (where outside prostitutes were hired to entertained guests)
your countenance
second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
infectious disease originating overseas entering the country through an infected traveller or goods
one who experiences a chronic ailment takes better care of his health and lives longer
Altair (star in the constellation Aquila)
multiculturalism
proportional representation system in which both party and individual votes are cast, seats are distributed amongst parties by proportion of vote obtained, and candidates are elected in descending order of number of votes obtained
earth observation satellite
performance by two or more musicians playing similar instruments
democracy (as propounded by Sun Yat-sen)
special envelope for monetary gifts
paper treated with astringent persimmon juice
adopting a son-in-law into one's family