conscription; draft system
physical examination (given at conscription)
perverseness; obstinacy; something unreasonable (like pushing a cart from the side (instead of from behind)); side wheel throw (judo)
taking up a new line of work; the beginning of things; starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto); resuming work after the New Year's vacation
(enforced) confinement; internment; detention by legal force
to fertilize; to fertilise; to manure; to enrich
whitewashing; glossing over; lip service; deftly finishing up; putting on the final touches
laborer; labourer; workman
round, wooden container for cooked rice
lookout post; observation point
to roll in; to tumble into; to visit (esp. to stay overnight as an unwanted guest); to fall in one's way; to fall into one's lap
to make a name for oneself; to achieve success
bubble; foam; froth; head on beer
blasphemy; curse; profanity; sacrilege; desecration
unpatriotic person; traitor (to one's country)
to be stripped of all one's clothes; to lose everything one has
sending a telegram; telegraph
extent of (one's) foolishness; degree of stupidity
trifling with; toying with; playing with; tossing about (a ship)
washhouse; place for cleaning one's laundry
determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning; determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech; (arch.) divining good or bad luck from listening to someone
barnyard millet (Echinochloa esculenta); Japanese millet; sanwa millet
snowmelt; meltwater; melted snow
throwing stones; slingshot; sling
self-aggrandizement under pretense of aiding another (aggrandisement, pretence)
(barbed) wire entanglements
to be idle; to slacken; to neglect (e.g. one's work)