slightly difficult; somewhat bothersome; troublesome; peevish; querulous
wasted money; unused money
cultural center; cultural centre
to work hard; to toil; to moil; to keep one's nose to the grindstone; to slug away
Pitman; Pittman; Pittmann
four-panel comic strip; yonkoma
Japan's envoy to Sui dynasty China
Norwegian Wood (1987 novel by Haruki Murakami)
automobile component; automobile part
Tayama Katai (1872.1.22-1930.5.13)
domestic; parochial; noncosmopolitan; provincial
Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
aliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature
Shiba Ryoutarou (1923.8.7-1996.2.12)
Kinokuniya; Kinokuniya (book store chain)
a series of paperbacks published since 1964 by Kodansha
(China's) Cultural Revolution (1966-76)
Ooshio Heihachirou (1793-1837)
physics (study of natural science in ancient Greek philosophy)