Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)
online dating app; match-making app
matter of hit-and-miss; mix of success and failure; variation (in quality, returns, etc.)
2008 financial crisis; global financial crisis; GFC
rock! paper! scissors!; paper! scissors! rock!; one! two! three!; rock-paper-scissors (game); janken
Ministry of Revenue (Tang-dynasty China)
sharing a room, flat, apartment, or house (with roommates, flatmates, etc.)
brokerage; brokerage firm; broking house; securities company
fresh, young ears of rice
death by hanging (punishment in the ritsuryō system)
family tradition; (arch.) wind blowing from the direction of one's home
Japanese (people, language, style)
to do wholeheartedly; to put one's heart into something
bond; bill; certificate; security
with a view to marriage; with marriage in mind
LINE (instant messaging software)
or; OR (Boolean operator)
style (of a work, author, artist, etc.); characteristics
first departure (of the day); first train; first bus; departing one's home station (of a train, bus, etc.)
with gusto; with wild abandon; enthusiastically; energetically
gong (instrument); gong (sound at the end of round, etc.)
one's turn for doing the sweeping (cleaning)
person being waited for; person who waits
match (contest); to match with; to go well with
to court; to woo; to approach defiantly