jpdb beta

angrily; in a huff; in anger

2

oiran; highest-ranking courtesan; (arch.) prostitute

2

fat; fatty; grand; magnificent; excellent

2

high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara; Edo period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank)

2

everybody; every last one of them; all

1

suffering; distress; hardship; trial

3

all members; whole army

3

crowded train

1

police station

1

ennui; languishing; feeling of exhaustion; lassitude; lethargy

1

news; word; tidings; omen; foreboding; premonition

1

to hear a rumor; to get wind of

1

public finance; financial affairs; financial situation

2

to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate

1

money loser; high-cost, low-return project

1

assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation

1

(one's) superior; (one's) boss; the higher-ups

1

pen nibs

1

frank; direct; plain; straightforward; point-blank; concise

1

members; member; constituent

1

accounting; administration (of money)

1

office work; clerical work; administration; business; affairs

1

non-combatant; civilian

1

professional job; profession

1

specialization; specialisation

1

captain (of a Japanese-style boat); skipper; boatman; oarsman; head of a fishing crew; fishing master

1

the other day; some time ago; recently

1

to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch

2

reform; reformation; reorganization

1

decisive action; carrying out; resolute enforcement; execution

1

swelling; enlargement

1

division (of a larger group); branch; field; class (subclass); group; category

1

merger; joining into one; amalgamation; melding; merging; annexation

1

reduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down; contraction

2

slimming down; scaling back; thinning; streamlining; retrenchment

1

outsider; someone outside of a group

2

it's precisely for that reason that ...; which is precisely why ...

1

for (some) doubtful points to remain

1

strategy meeting; council of war

4

how; in what way

1

to spoil; to ruin; to destroy; to make a mess of

1

small

1

(an) unknown; unknown number; variable; unknown quantity; not yet known

1

going against one's will; contrary to one's intentions; going against one's desire; going contrary to one's wishes

1

to re-grip; to re-wrestle; to regroup (after some adverse event)

2

with gusto; with wild abandon; enthusiastically; energetically

1

ramen restaurant; noodle restaurant

3

to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe

2

newsprint; newspaper used for wrapping, packing, etc.; newspaper

1

to hang; to hang up

1