My Basket (supermarket chain)
background music (in a movie, television drama, etc.)
having received no job offers; being without job offers
easy to ride; riding well
catharsis; purgation; evacuation; pouring out (water, etc.)
acting on impulse; doing impulsively; doing instinctively
postrecording (dialogue or sounds); post-synchronization; dubbing; automated dialogue replacement; ADR
red letter style; cutesy fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in red or pink)
to depend on one's parents' (financial) support; (lit.) to nibble at one's parents' shins
ATOK (Advanced Technology Of Kana-kanji transfer); early Japanese IME
In the beginning was the Word
expected overtime (stipulated as a specific number of hours)
preliminary boiling (of hard-to-cook ingredients); cooking in advance
to get twisted; to get kinked
wild sesame (Perilla frutescens var. frutescens); oilseed perilla; egoma
animal print; animal print fabric
half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh
neckline (of dress, etc.)
Chiba Shin'ichi (1939.1.23-)
international language; world language; global lingua franca; constructed international auxiliary language (e.g. Esperanto)
Tokimeki Memorial (dating game series)
nine levels of Amitabha's Pure Land; Amitabha's Pure Land; nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land
nine-to-five (working hours); nine to five