popular entertainment; mass entertainment; public amusement
international film festival
Golden Lion (highest prize at the Venice Film Festival)
Mizoguchi Kenji (1898.5.16-1956.8.24)
Fujimura Fumio (1916.8.14-1992.5.28)
televising; broadcasting; airing
station square; station plaza
white person; Caucasian; (arch.) beginner; (arch.) amateur; (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
wrestler (esp. pro wrestler)
bringing certain death; deadly; knockout (blow)
karate chop (pro wrestling move)
to mow down; to cut down; to knock down; to defeat; to beat
Rikidōzan (1924-1963), Korean-Japanese professional wrestler
flute constructed of bamboo
Japanese nationality; Japanese citizenship
the end; closing; being done for; that's it; that's enough; that's all
to differ; to be different; to run counter to; to change (into something out of the ordinary)
linkage; entanglement; involvement; relationship; interaction
requisition; requisitioning; seizure; confiscation; impounding; retaining (e.g. deposit)
Democratic Party of Japan
snap election; snap general election
Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996)
Liberal Democratic Party; LDP; Free Democratic Party (Germany); FDP
Liberal Democratic Party; LDP
Liberal Democratic Party; LDP
to give off sparks; to spark; to scintillate; to have a heated argument; to combat; to do something fiercely
pre-established harmony (Leibniz theory); harmonie préétablie; (events) proceeding in a predictable fashion; turning out the way everyone expected; convention
negotiations; bargaining; dialogue; duet