to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
painful; being sorry; feeling sorry
to get back; to regain; to recover; to make up (for); to catch up on
to be moist; to be damp; to profit by; to receive benefits; to become rich; to become at ease financially
cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless
(committee) chairman; president
glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles; judgment; judgement; discrimination
left arm; left-handed (baseball pitcher)
false; pseudo-; quasi-; would-be; sham; pretended
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
bitter (e.g. criticism); sharp; biting; severe; scathing; harsh
outer surface; outward appearance; outside; outside; outer; outward
losing one's position; losing one's standing; downfall; fall (from power); being overthrown
to herd; to drive; to corner; to force someone into doing; to go hard; to push yourself
bathtub; boat with a bathtub rented to customers (Edo period)
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
government office; agency; board
to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle
to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself
backing; support; backer; shield that protects one's back
proposal; offer; request; application
area on Japan Sea side of Japan, including Niigata
strong nation; powerful country
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
future prospects; promise
opportunity; chance; folding; fold; small food box (wooden or cardboard); folding in ... (two, three, etc.); counter for folded items
lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end
total; complete; all-out; general; extensive; full-scale
in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
to govern; to manage; to subdue
Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)
meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club
Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry
instability; insecurity; crankiness
reproduction; duplication; reprinting
commerce; trade; business
highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)