hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done
taking part on the spur of the moment; participating without registering beforehand; last-minute entrant; specking on flower petals
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
brightness; discernment; insight; eyesight; vision; nth year in the Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
bank; banking institution
(bank) president; greenroom manager (in a theater)
to negotiate (with someone about); to talk over (something with); to tackle someone (about); to throw on each other; to splash (water) on each other; to pour on each other
grandfather; male senior-citizen
stubborn; obstinate; pigheaded
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
to project; to stick out; to stand out
self-assessment; self-evaluation; self-rating; self-esteem
clean sweep; purging; doing away with; eradication
compassionate; sympathetic
self-deprecating routine; self-deprecating joke
to be worried about; to be concerned for someone's welfare
to dump (e.g. onto the floor); to empty by overturning; to throw out (contents); to tell everything; to reveal everything; to open one's heart
disappointed love; broken heart; unrequited love; being lovelorn
to walk behind someone; to follow in someone's footsteps
being struck mad by love; foolish passion; blind love; infatuation; jealousy
tangle; entanglement; snarl; complication; difficulties; trouble
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
dark; gloomy; overcast; heavy; leaden; dull
difficulty; trouble; accident; disaster; fault; defect
aestheticism; pursuit of beauty; obsession with beautiful things
tall figure; high stature
sorrow; grief; anguish; trouble; affliction; anxiety
major company; big company; front castle gate; force attacking the front of a castle
corporate group; group businesses; group company; affiliated company
domestic and foreign; inside and outside the country
to study; to complete (a course); to order (one's life); to repair (a fault one has committed)
to be confused; to be in disorder; to be chaotic; to have troubles; to be in a dispute; to argue
to warm up to; to get interested in; to get excited by
having one's hands full; not having any room to do more; at the limit