reshuffling; job rotation
center; centre; middle; Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)
now advancing and now retreating; ebb and flow; seesawing; taking alternately favorable and unfavorable turns
Jeju (special self-governing province and island in South Korea)
secretary (government); director; chief
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
futures; credit (buying); stretching; total (preceding counter, unit, etc.); aggregate
henry (unit of inductance)
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
anniversary of a person's death; monthly return of the date of someone's death
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
to throw violently against; to slam against; to strike; to thrust at someone (e.g. a letter)
to blink (one's eyes); to wink; to bat; to twinkle (e.g. stars); to flicker; to waver
(making, launching) concentrated attack (on, against)
(exaggerated) professing to be; passing oneself off as
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
having no choice; at a loss for what to do; at one's wits' end
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
to ask a question; to begin to ask a question
you; presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.)
boy; son; child; mere boy; stripling; greenhorn
sky burial (funeral ritual in which the body of the deceased is exposed to be eaten by birds)
strict; close; precise; scrupulous
scattered; disperse; loose; disconnected; in pieces; in drops
besides; furthermore; on top of that; and yet; nevertheless; even so
to hack; to chop (firewood, meat, etc.); to chop off (e.g. a head)
3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma
large crowd; large herd; large flock; large school; large shoal; swarm
radio (communication); wireless; not using wires