net buying; buying more than selling; overbought position; long position
game, set and match; end of the game; end of the match
slump; crash; heavy fall; sudden decline
spreading baseless information to benefit one's own position in the stock market (etc.); statement that is beneficial to oneself
circulation; rotation; cycle; loop
inflationary trend; inflationary tendency
emission; release; radiation; release (of goods, a player from a team, etc.)
to point upward; to look upward; to improve
barely keeping a business going (analogy that a bicycle falls over when its wheels cease rotating)
puncture; flat tyre (tire); blowout; bursting; overflowing; being jammed (e.g. phone lines)
malignant (cancer); virulent; pernicious (anemia, anaemia)
to get angry; to lose one's temper
all pain, no gain; doing no good and a lot of harm; having no redeeming features; being a complete disadvantage; (lit.) a hundred harms and not a single gain
leader; leaders; dotted line; reader (textbook); reader (i.e. a person who reads); microreader
rule; reign; government; governing
dismissal (from one's post); firing; being relieved from one's post; discarding; throwing away; becoming useless
dismissal (from a job); firing; sacking
cut; reduction; curtailment
bureaucratic organization; bureaucracy
to incorporate; to work into; to insert
system of government; government structure
to play a part; to get involved; to take a share; to share the burden
brink; verge; critical moment; crucial moment
wartime regime; war footing
unthinkable; unexpected; outrageous; offensive
swelling; enlargement; becoming fat; hypertrophy
auxiliary organization (organisation); extra-departmental body; fringe organization
severance payment; retirement money (usu. lump-sum); redundancy payment
to lower (a price, tax, standard, etc.); to bring down; to demote; to withdraw (a proposal, request, etc.); to abandon; to withdraw (troops, etc.)
cross; crossing; intersecting; cross (soccer)
Japanese Self-Defense Force official; Self-Defense Force official
to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply
Spratly Islands (South China Sea)
after-treatment; post-treatment; post-processing; dealing with the aftermath
Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes
operating together; working together; being linked (to); being tied (to); being connected (with); interlocking