deployment; disposition; posting; stationing
check; keeping in check; containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; pickoff throw; holding a runner on base
act of self-advertisement; publicity stunt
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services
threat; bird-scaring device (scarecrow, gun, etc.)
union; unity; bundling; binding; (arch.) putting on (clothes, armour, etc.)
to keep someone from doing; to stop; to prevent; to check; to hinder; to obstruct
stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others; solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory)
standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against
similarly; same (idea); same (name)
powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent
solution; solution strategy
thoroughly; through and through
in a hurry; hastily; in feverish haste
pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe
separation; farewell; parting
return (to); revolution; recurrence; regression
pride; dignity; self-respect
funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd
to turn (a matter) over in one's mind; to think deeply
international politics (as a field of study)
Masuzoe Youichi (1948.11-)
brave; valiant; gallant; stirring; vigorous; rousing
to gulp down (a drink); to slurp
to lose one's cool; to blow one's top; to flip one's lid; to get angry
beginning (of writing); opening passage (sentence, paragraph, etc.); written claim; bill
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; meddler; buttinsky; busybody
day in question; appointed day; that very day; the day (of issue, publication, etc.)
foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; means of transportation
to kick; to refuse; to reject; to stamp (on the ground); to firmly press one's feet (against something)
Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group); kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper); yomiuri
Giants (Japanese baseball team)