Sea Shepherd (marine conservation organization)
sole custody; sole parental authority
Japanese-made thing; Japanese goods; Japanese style thing
personal selection (esp. of a defense lawyer); private selection (e.g. of poetry)
International Whaling Commission; IWC
difficult to get into; not be easily influenced into joining some mood or activity
(Japanese) Civil Proceedings Act (1890, revised in 1926)
registered real-estate broker
real estate register; real property register
modern; up-to-date; art nouveau; Beaujolais nouveau (wine); vague; fuzzy
to grasp at straws; to resort to desperate measures
family quarrel; quarrel between parent and child
cucumber sushi wrapped in nori (seaweed); cucumber makizushi
Respect-for-the-Aged Day (national holiday; third Monday in September)
legal consultation; (giving) legal advice
administrative measures (disposition)
family happiness; household harmony
de facto marriage; common-law marriage; living together as husband and wife without formal marriage
projecting part (of a headland, etc.); moment of departure; (on the) point of going out; outset; start
total denial; complete denial; denying totally (flatly, outright)
(listed in) no particular order; arbitrary order; random order
net worth; net assets; total equity
to stamp (one's mark, etc.); to seal; to leave (one's footprints, etc.)
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
to start slowly; to lag behind