action; conduct; behaviour; behavior; mobilization; mobilisation
consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (someone) for advice
charge; duty; person in charge; official; clerk
sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
subtle; delicate; difficult; complex; doubtful; questionable
thereupon; therefore; because of that
I'm home!; I'm back!; now; at present; just now; a moment ago
elder sister; older female friend
inheritance; succession; share-alike; inheritance
right (to do something); authority; power
contest; competition; struggle; scramble
(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
agglutination; adhesion; fusion; combination; blending; uniting
one-on-one fighting sport (without weapons); combat sport; martial art
user; consumer; master (e.g. of swordsmanship); prodigal; spendthrift
muscle-brain; meathead; hot-blooded idiot; person who charges in before thinking
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...
in bad shape; not doing well; not going well; out of condition; in poor form
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
to get mended; to be repaired; to return to normal; to recover (e.g. one's temper); to be corrected; to get put right; to come right
market price; speculation (e.g. on stocks); reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation
to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)
destruction; disruption; (application) crash
serious damage; heavy damage; being wrecked; thrashing (an opponent); crushing; giving a drubbing
far from; anything but; not at all ... but rather ...; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
flour; meal; powder; heroin
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); feline; shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom (submissive partner of a homosexual relationship)
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
had better ...; had better not ...
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back; action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; with a bob of the head
to bow; to bow one's head; to apologize; to apologise; to bow to; to yield to
timid; weak-kneed; fainthearted; bearish
somewhere; in some respects; in some way
to excite; to incite; to stimulate; to arouse; to tempt; to stir up