passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
defeat; lost battle; losing a war
encirclement; encircling net; tight besiegement
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; the four and eight kinds of suffering
Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry
but then; although; though; reasonable; natural; just
free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)
to give up on; to turn one's back (on); to abandon; to forsake; to dump (e.g. romantic partner)
carapace; shell; 1st in rank; grade A; instep; back of hand
congratulation; celebration
ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan
as one would expect; naturally; indeed; still; all the same; after all
I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)
sometimes; occasionally; at times; seasonal; of the season; appropriate (for the season or occasion)
softly; mildly; gently; politely
going through; going via; going by way of
around there; near there; or thereabouts; or so; such a matter; such a thing
iridescent colour; equivocal (reply, statement, etc.); ambiguous; vague
to be evasive; to give an evasive answer; to speak ambiguously; to prevaricate; to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation; to make do with
after-treatment; post-treatment; post-processing; dealing with the aftermath
peep; chirp; poor; hard up; the runs; diarrhea
to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in
to glare at each other; to confront each other
to make (good) progress; to move right ahead (with the work); to advance
base; basis; base (e.g. military); depot; base; base bag
leaving on time (e.g. as opposed to paid or unpaid overtime)
white; correction fluid; white-out
business; affairs; duties; work; procedure; task
leisure; leisure time; spare time
use; utilization; utilisation; application
process; procedure; sequence; protocol; instruction
establishment; settlement
circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral
common knowledge; being well-known; making (something) well-known
like this; this sort; this way
please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not