to reheat; to steam over; to bring up again (a problem that has been dealt with); to take up again; to drag up
the instability of a political situation; political instability
foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
diplomatic; diplomatically
interruption; interference; butting in
to prevent; to take precautions
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
intelligence gathering; information gathering
to check through; to thoroughly investigate
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
seven tenths; seventy percent; seven hundreds; seven percent
materials; data; document
measurement error; calculation error
pointing down; pointing downward; (market) decline; downturn; downward trend
equilibrium; good balance; poise
one way or the other; either way
peremptorily; willy-nilly; forcibly
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
to run (up hill, stairs, etc.)
wild; unruly; arrogant; endless (e.g. spending); uncontrolled; rampant (e.g. weeds)
to take action; to start; to get started; to begin to do
to split; to tear; to burst; to be separated; to be divided
various places; several sources
had better ...; had better not ...
eight (long cylindrical things)
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
deviation; departure; omission
occasion; time; section (of a literary work); paragraph; season; term; principle
counter for pairs of socks, shoes, etc.
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
to deny; to contradict; to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out
hundredfold; hundred times as much; much more (than previously)
to expose; to lay open (e.g. secret); to take apart; to disassemble; to kill; to murder; to dress (meat)
nonsense; irresponsible remark; codswallop; random; haphazard; unsystematic
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)