things to do; must-do items; one's duty; what is required
thickheaded; obstinate; inflexible; stubborn
indecisive; irresolute; shilly-shally; vacillating
nature; disposition; temperament; qualities; attributes; talents
improvement of relations; rapprochement
unable to get along; unable to cooperate; unable to hit it off; not seeing eye to eye
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
Grand Protector (lowest of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty); Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods)
charge; duty; person in charge; connection; linking
Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods)
Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods)
engineering works; civil engineering; public works
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945); Minister of the Interior (669-1868)
civil affairs; civil case
secret information; intelligence
abduction; kidnapping; kidnaping
chief councillor of state; chief councilor of state; large-grained variety of adzuki bean
document; writing; letter; document addressed to someone
deputy secretary (government); deputy director
Lord; Sir; state minister (under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) you (in reference to someone of lower status)
Minister for Foreign Affairs
inside the Imperial Palace; Department of the Imperial Household
vacant post; vacancy; post in name only
internal or domestic affairs
Minister of the Imperial Household
correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications
left-hand radical of a character
returning to the service of one's master
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
to backfire; to produce a result opposite to what was expected or intended
to step forward; to volunteer
certainly; surely; definitely
nth year in the Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7)