contriving (to raise funds, to find time, etc.); working out (a solution)
staff member; employee; worker; personnel
cooling oneself; enjoying the cool air
unexpectedly; surprisingly
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
actual existence; real existence; existing in real life
difference; disparity; gap
honest; trustworthy; upright; sincere
amendment; correction; revision; modification; alteration; retouching
repeatedly opening and closing (one's mouth); gasping; flapping (e.g. shoe sole); gaping open and shut; heartily (eating); devouring
goldfish (Carassius auratus)
ill-natured; mean; mischievous; nasty; unkind; teasing
pilchard (esp. Japanese pilchard, Sardinops melanostictus); sardine
stickiness; viscosity; tenacity; persistence
shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes)
flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo)
to float; to set afloat; to show on one's face (smile, sadness, etc.); to recall; to call to mind
mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; three-leaved; trefoil
nama-fu; wheat gluten mixed with rice flour and steamed in large blocks
(turned out) all right in the end
investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning; pressing; catching up; overtaking
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
planning; project; plan; design
10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion; sign; omen; indication
all people; everybody; ten thousand people
dense; thick; close (relationship); intimate; minute; fine
establishment; settlement
Ministry of Communications and Transportation (dissolved in 1949)
(former) Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years
government; administration
to turn the rudder of a ship; to change direction (of policy, etc.)
counting backwards; calculating backwards; inverse operation; reverse operation
to spread; to be propagated
simmer; bubble out; flow out