to cause trouble; to cause a disturbance
(ancient) Japan; Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture)
tail (animal, kite, comet, etc.); tail end; slope at the foot of a mountain
eyes and ears; seeing and hearing; one's attention; one's interest
to soften; to moderate; to relieve
winning over; placation; gentle persuasion
to mount (animal behaviour); to assert dominance
nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos); Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)
to answer; to fire back; to retort; to redo; to do over; to try again
to place in a row; to line up; to list; to enumerate; to talk a lot of nonsense; to tell a lot of lies
offset; offsetting each other; cancelling each other out; set-off; setoff
orphan; person without friends
bad (taste); unpalatable; poor; unskillful; ugly; unattractive
to ram one's opponent head-first in the initial charge; to punch hard; to hit hard
prison; jail; gaol; firm; solid; strong
rebound; relapse after a diet; regaining lost weight; return of symptoms after withdrawal of medicine
(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it
(death from) starvation; starving to death
postwar period; period after Second World War
to oppress; to persecute; to tyrannize
to do one good; to be beneficial; to stand in someone else's shoes; (arch.) to care deeply for someone
rank (of troops); file; column; formation
to get tired of (doing); to lose interest in
near the mark; pretty close; not a bad guess
birth; giving birth; creating; bringing into the world
blogger (writer of a weblog)
dance (esp. Western style); dancing
financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence; living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time
cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; have to do
involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism; grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation