Tainan

(shogi) piece stand, for holding captured pieces

laboratory testing bench; laboratory material; subject of an experiment

stand (platform on which a witness testifies in court)

gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)

revisionism

"Historical kana usage", a prescriptive method of using kana to write Japanese. Devised in the Edo period by Keichū (契沖) and taught in schools until 1946, it aims to be etymologically faithful and reflects earlier stages of the language (Heian period and earlier).

By teaching, we learn. Docendo discimus.

will you marry me

A stock phrase in Japanese pop culture supposedly used by the wife in a newly-wed couple to invite her new husband to bed.