private member's bill; legislation introduced by a Diet member
blunder; slip; error; error
field; sphere; realm; division; branch
honor; honour; credit; prestige
absurd; ridiculous; silly; ludicrous; nonsensical; asinine
national (e.g. hero, pastime, consensus); relevant to all citizens; popular on a national level
the world and the nation; the state of the world; high affairs of state
manner of speaking; verbal argument; objection; protesting a decision (esp. that of a sumo referee); rumor; rumour
to accomplish; to finish; to fulfill
bad feeling; feeling bad; disagreeable; unpleasant; revolting; gross
anything and everything; all sorts of things; by all means
Japanese plum (Prunus salicina); Chinese plum
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
capture; seizure; military capture of a foreign vessel; making a prize of
aquatic products; fisheries
internment; detainment; detention
sending home; repatriation; deportation
considerably; greatly; a lot
to thrust before; to thrust at
station (esp. a police station); office (e.g. tax office)
internment camp; detention facility; POW camp; refugee camp
in turns; in series; in number order; by rotation
wheat; barley; oat (oats)
salted and fermented fish sauce from Akita
occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom
room; chamber; monk in charge of business in the monks' quarters; bedroom (of a married couple); locule (in a plant ovary); atria and ventricles
tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
partition; division; settlement of accounts; preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark; directing