minced meat or fish that is seasoned and fried (usu. served on top of rice); tattered; ragged; fine; small
caramel (browned sugar used as flavouring)
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty
term; period; time frame; time limit; deadline; cutoff (date)
article for sale; goods for sale; offering; specialty; selling point
potato chips; potato crisps
Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
(sense of) taste; counter for food, drink, medicine, etc.
rough (touch, voice, etc.); coarse; gritty; rattling (of beans, beads, etc.)
inadvertently; for no special reason; truthfully; unexpectedly; after realizing; without knowing
cheers; bottoms-up; toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something); drinking one's glass dry
paper (in rock-paper-scissors); disappearing completely; coming to nought; foolishness; stupidity
bar; saloon; pub; tavern; drinking establishment
ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
shōchū made from sake lees; low-quality moonshine (esp. post-WWII); hooch (hootch)
maniac (as in rabid sport fan); enthusiast
yearned for; longed for; missed
disposition; inclination; characteristic; sexual disposition; fetish
older brother; elder brother
awkward (movements, speech, etc.); jerky; stiff; strained (relations); sour
very caring; kind; helpful; service-minded
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
to be opposite; to face each other
tousled; shaggy (hair); scraggly (beard); dishevelled; disheveled; unkempt
thick wakame leaves, from near the stalk
matter of hit-and-miss; mix of success and failure; variation (in quality, returns, etc.)
wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law
to relax; to feel at home
upright-floating tea stalk (considered a lucky omen)
curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
oil sands; tar sands; bituminous sands
carbonic acid; carbonated water; baking soda; sodium carbonate
brand; make; description; trading name of stocks and securities
according to; reads; reading; is written; says; states
shrill; strident; sharp (pain, e.g. headache, earache); ice-cold; very cold
dark brown; colour of tanned skin
to rise up (e.g. pillar of smoke); to go up
(air) bubble (esp. in a liquid)
Extinct (conservation status); EX
sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages