behavior; behaviour; conduct; entertainment; treat; feast
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
family circle; one's circle (of friends, co-workers, etc.); private matters; internal affairs; conservative (e.g. estimate); moderate
exhaustion; consumption; using up; dissipation; waste
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
act which serves the interests of (benefits) the enemy
to abuse (verbally); to curse at; to shout abuse at; to speak ill of
to reseat oneself; to correct one's posture
each place; various places
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
to spread money around (e.g. to give, to loan, to invest, etc.)
at the last moment; this late in the game
absurdity; contradiction; incoherence; irrelevance
party (of people); set (of people); clan; family; fellow
Kasumigaseki; district of Tokyo where most of Japan's government ministry offices are located; government ministries (of Japan); Japanese government bureaucracy
remarkable; striking; obvious
tendency; trend; inclination
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
actual spot; scene (of a crime, accident, etc.); (on) site; (on) the ground; filming location; (movie) set
brave fight; desperate fight
hard struggle; strenuous effort
self-evident; obvious; axiomatic; self-explanatory; trivial
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
appeal (e.g. to public opinion); plea; appeal (e.g. sex appeal); attractiveness; appeal (e.g. in baseball); emphasizing (strong points, etc.)
Blue Impulse (JASDF aerobatic team)
very easy; piece of cake; child's play; before breakfast
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
if one is unlucky; if one is careless; if things don't go well
to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash
to weave together; to interweave; to intermingle
to perform in tune with each other; to get along well; to be in perfect harmony; to make a perfect pair (team, etc.)
large hole; big deficit; heavy losses; long-shot win (in horse racing, etc.); big winnings (on a long shot)
to say; to tell; to state; to do