begging; pestering; pleading; coaxing
(squad of) police; police force
(a) Buddha; deceased person
things one is carrying; things one has on one's person; thing one owns; one's property; mistress; lover
land route; overland route; by land; overland
not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means; very hard to manage
worn-out; run-down; shabby; tattered; dilapidated
electric line; electric cable; power cable; telephone line; telegraph wire
everywhere; all over; throughout
seriously; in earnest; for real; all out; really; with a will
comics, novels, etc. about female homosexuality
if anything; conversely; putting it the other way around; coming at it from the opposite angle
light clothing; dressing light; light equipment; light armaments
yawn; yawning; kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
biker gang; group of hot-rodders
Junichiro Koizumi (1942.1.8-; prime minister of Japan 2001-2006)
to overdo; to go too far; to go to excess
B; b; basement floor (as in B1F)
nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband
to call; to name; to call oneself ...; to go by the name of ...; to purport (to be); to profess
to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard; (arch.) to happen repeatedly; (arch.) to happen over and over again
piece; slice; cloth; sharpness; agility; counter for scraps, pieces, etc.
private person; individual
storage room; storeroom; lumber room
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
commander; commanding officer; CO
homeland; motherland; fatherland; native country
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
to create (a sensation); to cause (a commotion); to give rise to (controversy); to raise (a cloud of dust); to kick up (dust)
fewest; least; smallest (number); youngest
in; at; on; as for; regarding; with regards to
record of proceedings; minutes
individual; one by one; separate; each
neither this nor that; being at a loss; humming and hawing; shilly-shallying
to beat fast (of one's heart); to flutter (with joy, anticipation, etc.); to throb; to pound; to palpitate
in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
outflow; effluence; efflux; outflow (of people, capital, etc.); drain (of gold, talent, etc. from a country); leak (e.g. of personal information)
spirit of a dead person; ghost; departed soul; vengeful spirit (spawned from a dead person's hate); vindictive soul (of a deceased person)
historical materials; historical records; historical sources; archives
to expose to danger; to imperil; to jeopardize