activities of daily living; ADL; normal activities of daily life
Emperor Jinmu; legendary founding Emperor of Japan
negative option (billing)
final aim; final end; supreme end
proportional distribution
slave trade; human trafficking; slave trader
to bear (a child); to be born; to produce; to yield; to be produced
attainment of one's most cherished desire; one's earnest prayer being answered
body drop (judo); body throw
student preparing to re-take initially failed university entrance examinations
Ten Commandments; Decalogue; Decalog
gas range; gas burner; gas ring; hot plate; gas cooker; gas cooktop
sense of temperature; thermoception; thermoreception
member of the Imperial family; royalty; beautiful clouds
common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); kidney bean; navy bean; wax bean; green bean; string bean
(Nintendo) Super Famicom (equiv: Super Nintendo or SNES); Super Nintendo Entertainment System
suspension bridge; viaduct; temporary bridge; mediation; go-between
sewing scissors; dressmaker's shears
candid-camera; candid-camera footage
a friend is a good thing to have; a good friend is a great blessing
mixture; impurity; adulteration
menu board (small blackboard on which the specials of the day, etc., are written)
it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; they to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; inadequate ideas are worse than none at all
to eat with a munching or crunching sound
worldly wise; sophisticated; street smart; knowledge of the world (acquired in the school of hard knocks); toughness
continually; continuously; incessantly; without interruption
golden ratio (approx. 1.6180339887)
difficult person; good-for-nothing; pain in the ass (arse)