to cook (grains, e.g. rice); to boil; to simmer; to stew
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
noon; midday; daytime; lunch
hum (of a TV, radio, etc.)
Nikkei (newspaper, share index)
Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
buying and reading (book, magazine, etc.); subscribing (incl. free subscriptions); taking (e.g. newspaper)
maniac (as in rabid sport fan); enthusiast
basket; basketball; basket cloth
concreteness; feasibility
recognition; awareness; perception; understanding; knowledge; cognition
Japan and the United States; Japanese-American
person in charge (of an area of work); person responsible; contact (person)
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
Japan and South Korea; Japanese-Korean
snare; trap (for catching wild game, etc.); trap (i.e. ruse, subterfuge, etc.)
retirement; retiring (from a race, match, etc.); dropping out
dollar peg; being pegged to the dollar
to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)
loan; roan; lawn (i.e. short grass); lawn (type of cotton cloth)
multilateral; multinational
hour; o'clock; (specified) time; when ...; during ...
rate; late; rating; ranking
attack; assault; attempt; try
sharpshooting; shooting; sniping; setting a goal and carrying it out
script; screenplay; scenario
equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
good feeling; feeling good
mainland China; China proper
terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty