acquaintance; appreciative friend
pressing; stamping; press (machine); the press; news media; military press (weight lifting)
woman who works in the sex industry
Excellent (grade); A; superiority; excellence; gentle; graceful
Asahi Shimbun (newspaper)
industry; (arch.) livelihood; (arch.) occupation
Kearney; Kearny; Carney; Kahney
Hyūga (former province located in present-day Miyazaki Prefecture); Hyūga (city)
omen (usu. good); (auspicious) sign; first two anniversaries of a person's death
social; societal; societary
boundary; (nuclear) criticality; critical (mass, pressure, temperature, state, point, etc.)
gathering of talented people; group of geniuses
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document
Watanabe Takuya (1944.2.25-)
north of the capital; northern part of Kyoto
first volume (in set); volume one; book one
Matsumoto Jiichirō (1887.6.18-1966.11.22)
ladder form of "high" kanji
Bunshun Bunko (paperback label)
Sagawa Mitsuharu (1965.2.8-)
editorial committee member; senior staff writer (newspaper)
being two sides of the same coin; being the same (while appearing different); Very sincerely yours; (arch.) peerless; (arch.) unparalleled
Shiomi Sen'ichirō (1938.2.6-)
Korean person living in Japan
insubordination; outlawry
generation; the world; the age
China (sometimes also used in ref. to Korea or other foreign countries)