some; (a) little; somewhat; to some extent; in part
treaty; pact; convention; agreement
draft (for a speech, bill, etc.)
both countries; Ryōgoku (area of Tokyo)
ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition
to keep secret; to conceal
tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)
disadvantage; drawback; demerit; bad point; minus
use; exercise (of one's right, authority, power, etc.)
statesman; administrator; politician; policymaker
fighting back; returning fire; counter-attack; responding to an attack; accepting a challenge
vigilance committee; vigilante corps
great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking
peacetime; time of peace; ordinary times; normal times
protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household
compensation; indemnification; reparation; consideration
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
to manage something successfully; to be successful
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
foundation; base; basis; from the beginning; from the outset; by nature
pattern; figure; state; condition; conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems; model
one's home country; one's homeland
to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)
place where fire is likely to break out; possible cause of a fire
if you think about it; come to think of it
to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
February; second month of the lunar calendar
another name; nickname; alias; synonym (taxonomy)
to be overproduced; to be incredibly good (e.g. for a child); to go much better than expected; to be too good to be true (of a story, etc.)
Japanese name (often of plants and animals, and written in kana)
recognition; awareness; perception; understanding; knowledge; cognition
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
moving (location, with the times, etc.); change; metastasis; spread; transition (e.g. phase transition); transfer (of learning)
to yearn for (someone, something); to miss
after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years
language of one's country; mother tongue; native language