confluence (of rivers); flowing together; joining; joining (of people, groups, parties, etc.); union; linking up
way; manner; school (e.g. of flower arrangement); class; rate; flow
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
first-class; first-rate; characteristic (of); peculiar (to); school (e.g. of flower arrangement); one flag
fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic
meteor; shooting star; falling star
circulation (of money, goods, etc.); distribution; circulation (of air, water, etc.); ventilation; flow
torrent; rapid stream; violently rushing stream
outflow; effluence; efflux; outflow (of people, capital, etc.); drain (of gold, talent, etc. from a country); leak (e.g. of personal information)
upper stream; upper course; upstream; upper classes
way (of doing things); method; style; school (of ikebana, tea ceremony, etc.); style; system
backward flow; backflow; countercurrent; reflux; regurgitation
school (of painting, ikebana, etc.)
(the) mainstream; main course (of a river); main stream
fluent (in a language); flowing
absolute best; very finest; top-class; first-rate; elite
upper class; upper echelons of society; the rich and powerful; the elite
liking both alcohol and sweets; person who likes both liquor and sweets; bisexuality; player who can play as both pitcher and fielder; dual sword wielding; two-sword fencing
downstream; lower reaches of a river; lower classes
diversion (e.g. of funds); appropriation; misappropriation; making use of (for another purpose); reuse; repurpose
atmospheric current; air current; airflow
elegance; taste; refinement
running water; flowing water; stream
woman (writer, artist, aviator, etc.)
(an) exile; vagrant; wanderer; nomad
drifting; drift; being adrift
Ittō-ryū; school of swordsmanship founded during the early Edo period, from which many later schools branched
physical distribution; distribution of goods; logistics
gathering; mixer; meetup; assembly; social; exchange meeting
professional woman shogi player; professional woman go player
mid-stream; middle course; middle class
meteor swarm; meteor shower
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
tide; tidal current; tendency; drift; trend
continual change; vicissitudes; transmigration; metempsychosis
mountain stream; mountain torrent
big craze; boom; popular trend; widespread contagion; large outbreak
self-taught method; one's own way; one's own style
miscarriage; (spontaneous) abortion; abortive birth
main course (of a river); mainstream; main current (e.g. of thought)
streamlined shape; aerodynamic shape
groundless rumor (rumour)
person adrift on the sea; castaway (on an island)
ascending air current; updraft; upward trend; rise in popularity, influence, etc.
drainage basin; catchment basin; river basin; watershed; valley
one's own style; self-taught manner
fashion (current) of the times; general drift of affairs
exhibition game; friendly match; friendly; interleague game between the Central and Pacific baseball leagues
exile; banishment; deportation
discharge (e.g. of water from a dam); release of fish (into a river, pond, etc.); stocking with fish (a river, etc.); (arch.) banishment; (arch.) exile
high-voltage current; high-tension current
branch (of a river); tributary; branch; offshoot; something not mainstream
(air) turbulence; turbulent air
bloodshed; bloody event; bloody violence
Oie school of calligraphy (based on the gyōsho style; popular in the Edo period); Sonen school; Shorenin school
(inferior) imitator; epigone; poor imitation; follower; adherent; person belonging to the same school (e.g. of thought)
wandering (e.g. bird, exile, lifestyle); wandering alone in a strange country
old manners; old style; old school (of art)
avalanche of earth and rocks; debris flow; mudslide; landslide
interleague game; interleague match
false rumour (rumor); groundless rumour; canard
top university; leading university; first-rate university
Hokushin Ittō-ryū (school of swordsmanship founded by Chiba Shūsaku ca. 1820)
woman writer; lady writer; authoress
out of fashion; out of style; outmoded
buzzword; vogue word; popular phrase
distribution channel; channel of distribution
cultural exchange; cross-cultural communication; contacts between different cultures
Jigen-ryū; school of swordsmanship founded in the Satsuma domain in the early Edo period
anti-mainstream faction; fringe group; dissident group
another style; another school (of thought, karate, etc.)
drift (of an airplane or boat, etc.); leeway; windage
liquidity (esp. financial); fluidity; mobility (social, job, etc.)
direct line of descent; lineage of eldest son; main branch of a family; legitimate lineage
wielding three swords; player who can play as pitcher, fielder and batter
one's own way (esp. of an assertive man); one's own approach
population flow; movement of people; flow of people; community mobility
flow rate (esp. water or electricity); quantity of flow; capacity (of output or throughput per unit time)
counter for flags, banners, etc.
distribution network; distribution channels
hallyu; Korean wave; rise in global popularity of Korean pop culture
confluence (of rivers); junction (of rivers, roads, etc.); meeting point
contest between different schools (of fencing, etc.)
Japanese style; Japanese fashion
populace; common run of men; worldly customs
spiritual exchange; reciprocal flow of feeling
distributary; tributary; branched flow (river, current, etc.)
Shintō Munen-ryū (school of swordsmanship founded by Fukui Hyōemon Kahei in the 18th century)
fluid mechanics; fluid dynamics; hydrodynamics
cancelling a meeting; adjournment of a meeting (due to lack of attendance)
sales channels; (product) distribution channels
illegitimate family lineage
Shinkage-Ryu (style of Japanese fencing)
return current; reflux; back flow
one's own style; one's own way (of doing things)
secondhand smoke; sidestream smoke
channel; duct; passage; watercourse; flow channel
Western ways; Western customs; Western habits
good family; better-class home
influx of Chinese pop culture (into Japan)
flowing through; conduction
winning without fighting; method used to win without fighting; one's own way of doing things (i.e. as different from that of one's instructor); Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)
lower reaches (e.g. of a valley); downstream sector
his style; her style; his way (of); her way (of)
groundless rumor; groundless rumour; false report
exile; deportation; banishment
castaway story (e.g. Robinson Crusoe); drifter's adventure tale
style of classical Japanese swordsmanship involving use of two swords
Buzzword of the Year Award (organized by publisher Jiyu Kokumin-sha)
streamlet; brooklet; rivulet
living a roaming life; wandering and settling in a foreign land
speed of a moving fluid; flow velocity
unrefined; tasteless; inelegant; prosaic; unpoetic; unromantic
misappropriation (of funds, etc.)
flowing south (e.g. of a river)
flowing east (e.g. of a river)
fashionable color; fashionable colour
the same style; same school; common origin
threatened abortion; imminent abortion; threatened miscarriage; imminent miscarriage
epidemic parotitis; mumps
(metaphorically) floating with the tide
earth current; telluric current
circulating widely (of news, etc.)
Ogasawara-ryu (school of etiquette); punctilious etiquette; Ogasawara-ryu (school of archery, incl. horseback archery); Ogasawara-ryu (school of military strategy)
round that ends with nobody winning
personnel exchange; people-to-people exchange
spending the night out (e.g. at a brothel); staying out
flowing down (e.g. water in a river); downward flow
Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)
not quite first-class; between first and second class; semi-first-class
infected district; infected area; endemic area
ferrofluid; magnetic fluid; magnetorheological fluid
Hozoin-ryu (school of sojutsu)
top-ranked firm; top-tier corporation; leading company; prestigious company; stellar company
person in exile; deportee; exile
swirling current; eddy; whirlpool; eddy current
conservative mainstream (in Japan assoc. with LDP faction of Shigeru Yoshida)
excess current; over current
Kantei style of calligraphy
popular singer; singer of pop songs
women's writing; literature written by women
the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; haiku is both fluid and transitory, and eternal and immutable; an interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku
elegant appreciation of nature through artistic pursuits such as poetry, painting and calligraphy
Kyōshin Meichi-ryū (school of swordsmanship founded by Momonoi Naoyoshi in 1773)
school one belongs to; one's own unique way; natural flow (of a river); run-of-the-river (electricity generation)
rectification; commutation; flow straightening; flow rectification
Kanze style; Kanze school of noh
mainstream smoke (from a cigarette, cigar, etc.)
female professional; mistress (in a field)
spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures
gastroesophageal reflux disease
flowing north (e.g. of a river)
circulation; vortex; gyre
old sword fighting; sword drawing style or school from Shizuoka prefecture
female writer; woman writer
social networking; socializing online
Enshū school of tea ceremony; Enshū school of ikebana
Ōhashi style; customary order of setting up the board in which the bishop and rook are placed before pawns
upstream process; upper process
Sekishū school of tea ceremony; Sekishū school of ikebana
slow current; gentle stream
Sōhen school of tea ceremony
brain drain; outflow of talent
identifying (oneself) with the middle class
Japan Current; Kuroshio Current
don't complain until the job is finished; the end crowns the work
mutual love; the love one shows to another person being returned
international cultural exchange
unrefined; tasteless; inelegant; prosaic; unpoetic; unromantic
Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)
Itō style; customary order of setting up the board in which pawns are placed before the rook and bishop
natural abortion; spontaneous abortion; miscarriage
the cream (pink) of fashion
Oribe school of tea ceremony
epidemic keratoconjunctivitis
Muso Jikiden Eishin-ryu (iaido style)
direct-current power transmission
taking delight in elegant pursuits; being absorbed in such elegant cultural pursuits as poetry, painting and calligraphy
Urasenke school of tea ceremony
axial flow; axial current
sidelong glance; flirtatious glance
Shorenin school of calligraphy; Sonen school; Oie school
total anomalous pulmonary venous connection; TAPVC
coastal current; littoral current; alongshore current
impoverished elderly; poor senior citizens
all-Japanese-are-middle-class mentality
intergenerational (social) exchange
exchange conference (e.g. cultural, educational, etc.); exchange meeting
Senke school of tea ceremony
spiritual sympathy; spiritual communion
Cultural Exchange Association
alternating current circuit; AC circuit
kobori; swimming while wearing armor
manifestation (revelation) of one's natural sincerity (naivete)
marine current power generation; ocean current power generation
Sogetsu school of flower arrangement
stray arrow; flying arrow
prosaic person; person of an unromantic turn of mind; philistine
drooling; hypersalivation; sialorrhea
epiphora (excessive watering of the eye)
sore loser who stubbornly refuses to admit being wrong
delayed miscarriage; silent miscarriage; missed abortion
Hozoin-ryu (school of sojutsu)
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (orig. Japanese title)
fluid coupling; hydraulic coupling
top-ranking company; first-class company; leading company
liquidity on hand; ready liquidity cash plus marketable securities
Japan Society for Distributive Sciences; JSDS
Japan Transactional Analysis Association; JTAA
any port will do in a storm; (lit.) when you've lost your boat midstream, even a pot is worth a fortune
University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences
Hekiryu school of archery (Muromachi period)
gene flow; gene migration
Ryutsu Keizai University; RKU
coincident-current selection
JSME Fluids Engineering Division; JSME-FED
Japan-China Cultural Exchange Association
rice not subject to government controls
(beware of) merging traffic
confluence (of rivers); junction (of rivers, roads, etc.); meeting point (of civilizations, etc.)
Japan Medical Science Exchange Association; JAMSEA
merging car; car merging into a lane
incentives to promote land transactions
partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection; PAPVC; partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage; PAPVD; partial anomalous pulmonary venous return; PAPVR
infected area; infected district
distribution strategy; channel strategy
epidemic keratoconjunctivitis
partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection; PAPVC; partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage; PAPVD; partial anomalous pulmonary venous return; PAPVR
(Shorin-ryu) Okinawa school of karate
employment mobility; fluidity of employment
Yoshin-ryu (school of martial arts)
interleague game between the Central and Pacific baseball leagues
Yoshin-ryu; martial art tradition founded in the Edo period
partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection; PAPVC; partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage; PAPVD; partial anomalous pulmonary venous return; PAPVR
current flowing from the open sea towards land
three-phase alternating current
Omotesenke school of tea ceremony
current ratio; liquidity ratio
bridge-type full-wave rectifier
Goryū Shinto (sect of amalgamated Shinto)
Fumai school of tea ceremony
sale of goods (as opposed to services)
Shorin-ryu; Okinawa school of karate
high mountains and running water; the beauty of nature; beautifully (skillfully) played music
regenerative fan; vortex flow fan
regenerative blower; vortex flow blower
discharged water; final effluent
discharge water from a dam
dam discharge (e.g. water)
Foreign Policy Commission; Foreign Relations Committee
flu shot; injection for influenza immunization
Society of International Education and Cultural Exchange; SIENCE
mesoscale convective system; MCS
single-phase alternating current
equatorial countercurrent
Association of International Educational Exchange; AiEE
Distribution Economics Institute of Japan
International Nursing Foundation of Japan
Haiku international association
Yabunouchi school of tea ceremony
Sansai school of tea ceremony
social networking service
forfeiting a pawned article
pharyngal reflux; laryngopharyngeal reflux
influx of Taiwanese pop culture (into Japan)
Edo Senke school of tea ceremony
habitual abortion; recurrent miscarriage; recurrent fetal loss; recurrent pregnancy loss
Rikyū school of tea ceremony (i.e. the Senke school)
current reduction (usu. electrical)
river basin management; river basin flood control; river flood risk reduction
flow meter (liquid); current meter (electricity)
mercury arc valve; mercury vapor rectifier
sending logs downstream bound together in rafts; floating bound timber downstream; timber rafting
flowing west (e.g. of a river)
silicon controlled rectifier; SCR
catadromous fish (fish that migrates downstream, e.g. eel)
road area marked with diagonal white lines to guide traffic
laryngopharyngeal reflux; LPR
Sōwa school of tea ceremony
Tsukuba Center for Institutes
Sakai school of tea ceremony; Sakai school of calligraphy
conservative calligraphy style used to write rankings
current decreasing resistor
sore loser who stubbornly refuses to admit being wrong
anadromous fish (fish that migrates upstream, e.g. salmon)
Matsuo school of tea ceremony
Sōtan school of tea ceremony
Shotokan (style of karate)
ad hoc group formed to commit crimes
profuse perspiration; dripping with sweat