cruise; navigation; sailing
final; eventual; ultimate
planning; scheming; maneuvering; manoeuvring
screw; propeller (e.g. on a ship)
one-coin (i.e. able to be paid for with only one coin, esp. a 500-yen coin, sometimes a 100-yen coin); costing 500 yen; costing 100 yen
one person; another name; nickname; alias
loss of eyesight; loss of vision; going blind; blindness
dropping out; falling behind; omission; being left out; falling off; coming off
stopping a ship; detention; quarantine
impossible; incapable (of doing); incompetence; inability; impotence; having no solution (of an equation)
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe
inundation; submersion; flood
to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
Japan Coast Guard (formerly Maritime Safety Agency)
prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier
to entrust; to leave to a person
Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan); Chief of Staff (to the President, Prime Minister, etc.); Cabinet Secretary; Executive Secretary
previously; already; beforehand; in advance; for some time
Minister for Foreign Affairs
friction; discord; strife
Minister of Defense; Minister of Defence
serving concurrently as; holding the additional post of; additional post
resignation (from a position)
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
right to dissolve (e.g. the Diet)
to attract interest; to capture attention
official residence (e.g. of the prime minister)
ministries and government offices; the authorities
stopping functioning; being out of service
it is no exaggeration to say; it is not too much to say
locking sword to sword (in a duel) and pushing; fierce, close-fought competition
moving about; stirring about