to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to deep-fry
temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room
two eights; hachi-hachi (type of game)
genuine; real; full-scale; full-blown; full-fledged; professional
extensive knowledge; erudition
dizziness; giddiness; vertigo
to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think
revolution; 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)
strangeness; abnormality; disorder
everyday; daily; ordinary; usual; routine; regular
NHK; Japan Broadcasting Corporation
group of problems; set of issues
to haul in (hand over hand); to pull in; to draw in; to trace (history, threads of a story, etc.); to retrace (e.g. memories); to go over
to come near; to let someone approach; to bring near; to bring together; to deliver (opinion, news, etc.); to send (e.g. a letter); to let someone drop by
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
posing a question; question
trace; vestige; mark; sign; evidence
Iwanami Shoten, Publishers (publisher)
exclusion; removal; rejection; elimination; abatement; lifting (sanctions, etc.)
to translate; to interpret
bell (used for summoning or signalling); buzzer
now; soon; already; yet; further; more
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
synopsis; review of subject; annotation
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
author (usu. of a particular book); writer
(religious) faith; belief; creed
resonance; sympathetic vibration
Takahashi Tetsuya (1956-)
having wounds all over one's body; being wounded all over; receiving a drubbing; being subjected to a barrage of criticism
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); (lit.) (campaign) comfort women
to read (a book, etc.) over again
law; act; method; mood; dharma; law