crotch; crutch; groin; fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.); tines (of a fork)
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
toil; labor; labour; painstaking piece of work; (a) work involving considerable effort
to dig your own grave; to bring calamity upon oneself; to put your foot in it
sanity; consciousness; soberness
guarantee; security; assurance; pledge; warranty
upper stratum (classes, stories, storeys); upper layer; layer above
to lessen; to decrease; to diminish
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
losing one's position; losing one's standing; downfall; fall (from power); being overthrown
return; coming back; second coming (e.g. of Christ); second advent; reincarnation
successor; replacement; second wife
Minister of Communications and Transportation (1885-1949)
serving concurrently as; holding the additional post of
leaf; blade (of grass); (pine) needle
deplorable; alarming; grievous; lamentable
young man; young woman; young people; young employee; young manservant; young follower
Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang); provincial office (under the ritsuryo system); provincial capital
assignment (of a person to somewhere); attachment (of a person to another unit, organization, etc.)
apprenticeship; probation; learning by observation; apprentice; trainee; probationer
looking; viewing; (please) try (to)
moral (spiritual) improvement; practice mental training; cultivate one's mind (soul)
to miss (doing); to fail (to do)
youngster; neophyte; greenhorn
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for
harm; evil; poison; blight; harmful influence
to divide (by); to remove; to exclude
publication; issue (of journal, newspaper, etc.); issue (of banknotes, bonds, passport, etc.); raising an event (software)
to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around
symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); certain; unnamed; undisclosed
municipal district; streets
advanced level; high grade; senior