pardon; forgiveness; forbearance
Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)
bento; Japanese box lunch
explanation; excuse; clarification; vindication; apology
protest; refutation; pleading
boxed lunch bought at a station (often a local specialty); sexual position in which one person stands supporting the other
interpreter (in the Edo period)
explanation (e.g. for one's actions); excuse; justification; defense; defence
speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)
impassioned speech; fervent speech
discussion; debate; argument
insisting (unreasonably); obstinate insistence
talkativeness; loquacity; polypetalous; multivalve
artificial valve; artificial heart valve
lecturer; rhetorician; orator; narrator in Japanese silent cinema; film interpreter
mitral valve; bicuspid valve
eating one's lunch box before lunchtime (e.g. of a student)
homemade bento containing food decorated to look like cute characters (from anime, etc.)
Tokyo dialect; Tokyo accent
paying one's own expenses
distinguishing; distinction; discrimination; telling apart
lunchbox hanging from one's waist; low-paid office worker
Tsugaru Dialect (Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture)
narrator in Japanese silent cinema
speech; manner of speaking
reparation; indemnity; compensation; reimbursement
excuse; plea; defense; defence
defense (of oneself); defence (of oneself); explanation
payment; defrayal; disbursement
eloquence; oratorical talent
joint management; pool; gamopetalous; sympetalous
Tōhoku dialect; Tohoku dialect
heart valve; cardiac valve
vexillum; vane (of a feather)
valve (of the heart and the veins)
thick Tōhoku accent (wherein some "j" sounds become "z" sounds)
thick Tōhoku accent (wherein some "j" sounds become "z" sounds)
Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)
discernment; clear analysis; clear expression; distinguished speech
independent lawyer; lawyer with their own practice
electromagnetic valve; solenoid valve
the busier you are, the better you work; the more, the better
finishing one's business; settling an affair
Iyo dialect (spoken in Ehime prefecture)
partnership between a lawyer and non-lawyer in providing law services (illegal)
Izumo dialect (spoken mostly in eastern Shimane prefecture)
keel petal (type of flower)
Inshū dialect (spoken in eastern Tottori)
dialects of Japanese spoken in Eastern Tottori prefecture
skilful debate; well-constructed debate
water regulating valve; gate valve
thick Osaka dialect (as supposedly spoken by Hanshin Tigers fans)
something worn over tabi to keep them from getting dirty
anal valve; valvulae anales
globe valve; spherical valve; stop valve
choripetalous; polypetalous; schizopetalous
lunch box brought to cram school; cram school lunch box
practising law without a license