personal bankruptcy caused by excessive card-loan borrowing
artistic swimming; synchronized swimming
revolving payments; payment via multiple installments
Nichiren sect; Tendai sect; Lotus Sutra
nutmeg (soccer); hitting a ball through the legs (e.g. in tennis)
women's writing; literature written by women
water plant; aquatic plant; waterweed; hydrophyte
year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat); becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience
to give a cold (to someone)
revolving payments; payment via multiple installments
one step higher; one better; cut above; one up
head banging (esp. in popular music)
technical score (in figure skating, etc.)
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
child abduction; kidnapping of a minor
value analysis; volt-ampere; visual aid
working consecutive days (without a holiday)
Azuchi-Momoyama period (approx. 1558-1600)
unfathomable; inestimable; immeasurable
chocolate-vine (Akebia quinata); fiveleaf; fiveleaf akebia; fruit of the akebia
hard to see; obscure; indistinct; illegible
elm bark clothes traditionally worn by the Ainu; elm bark textile
little by little; step by step
breakfast set (often a drink and toast); breakfast special; special breakfast offer
having a short time to live; having not much longer to live; having little time left; (one's) days are numbered
to stick in one's throat; to choke on something
sexual interest in young boys; boy love
powdered cheese; cheese powder
to turn to delinquency; to turn to crime (of a child)
119; ambulance and fire brigade emergency telephone number