下

Company name

Matsushita Electronics Industry Corporation

wearing something for the first time

to talk about indecent things

paratrooper; parachutist; parachute trooper

subculture

downhill path

Idiomatic expression; Non-standard variant of 伝家の宝刀

one's last resort; trump card

Idiomatic expression; Colloquial

confused mess; utter confusion

bearish market

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Pippi Longstocking (1945 children's book by Astrid Lindgren)

vomit and diarrhea or excreta (diarrhoea)

hypoglycemic drug; hypoglycaemic drug

Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

beginning one's studies with something familiar and gradually increasing the depth of learning

unsparingly; without listening to the other party; without giving the other party a chance to explain

anti-hypertensive agent

Idiomatic expression

riding a horse so skillfully that it appears as if man and horse have become one

the warm feelings of people of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods

読み下し only

reading a text from start to finish

transliterating classical Chinese into Japanese

Computing

subordinate reference

Computing

down arrow

Idiomatic expression; Derogatory; Usu. in ref. to the smaller party in a coalition government

hanger-on; lackey; sycophant; snow stuck under a geta sandal

Anatomy

subarachnoid space

Proverb

a man of virtue will naturally attract admirers; good wine speaks for itself