consonant (in the Siddham script)
Minister of International Trade and Industry
fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra)
unthinkable; extraordinary; preposterous; cannot be
portable battery charger; external battery; power bank
outside corner (baseball, racetrack, etc.)
circulatory system (blood, lymph, etc.)
overnight flight; red-eye flight
Minister of Labor (Labour)
adding (e.g. an entry to a dictionary); listing; inclusion
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1871-2001)
bureaucratic jargon; officialese; gobbledygook
throat lozenge; cough drop
involving the audience (by talking to them, bringing them on stage, etc.)
sugidama; ball made from sprigs of Japanese cedar, traditionally hung in the eaves of sake breweries
sock it!; wallop it!; make a good hit!
salvation by one's own efforts; self-reliance
something intended as a lie or joke which (by chance) ends up being true; lie turned truth
bad smell; affectation; fulsomeness
harsh tasting; strongly alkaline tasting; excessively strong-willed; fiercely individualistic; strongly idiosyncratic
it often takes time for one's actions to bear fruit; (lit.) planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years (to bear fruit), persimmons take eight
to croak (e.g. like a frog)
difficult to hear; difficult to ask
to choose a lucky (auspicious) day
butter candy (Hokkaido specialty)