Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
large cut (e.g. of meat); last piece of the day's programme; last act of a play; comic dialogue as the last item in vaudeville, music hall, etc.
fireman; relief pitcher; fireman
stirring up trouble in order to get credit for resolving it; profiting from solving problems created by oneself
separation from the world
steep (mountain); precipitous; hard (life); difficult; troubled
big brother; elder brother; Big Brother; dictator; despot
golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus); Syrian hamster
risky; dangerous; suggestive; bordering on the obscene; (arch.) extreme; (arch.) harsh
quick change; quick transformation; metamorphosis; turning suddenly into
flesh (esp. of an animal); meat
throwing good money after bad
entire human body; every inch of one's body
security blanket; comfort blanket; comfort object
to be burned to ashes; to come to nothing
point of agreement; common ground; meeting ground
the three phases of matter: solid, liquid and gas
Sarukanigassen (folktale); The Monkey and the Crab
for money; just for money; by means of money; by force of money
tree line; forest line; timberline
to turn everything into a joke; to continue joking to the last
economy of scale; cost saving or benefit from having a larger scale (e.g. of production)
erosion control dam; barrier against debris-slide
full acceptance of workers' pay demands
skunk (i.e. preventing someone from scoring entirely)
detective story (esp. one from the Edo period featuring thief-takers); detective's memoirs; thief taker's memoirs
finishing reading; non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story; breaks and pauses (in a sentence)
wise younger brother; polite reference to another's younger brother, or to one's junior
orthodontia; orthodontics
a long time ago; long before now