damage (esp. financial) caused by harmful rumours or misinformation (rumors)
approval; adoption (of a motion, bill, etc.); passage
work; business; company; study
the Emperor; His Majesty; the government; the authorities; proprietress; hostess
public opinion; popular voice; public sentiment; consensus
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; MEXT
Sazae-san (Japanese comic character)
wakame (species of edible brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida)
merits and demerits; good points and bad points; strengths and weaknesses
in either case (used specifically in the instance of two possible outcomes or situations); either way; one way or another
the gods of heaven and earth
coffee time; tea time; coffee break
listening device; bug; wiretap
black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market
coloring; colouring; colour development; production of colour
one scene; one frame; one shot; one cell; one panel (comic)
few decades; many decades; several decades
oblong; landscape orientation
well-versed (in); profoundly knowledgeable (about); high in the attainment (of)
publish; start (new) publication
ceasing to publish; discontinuance of publication
suspension of publication
finishing reading; non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story; breaks and pauses (in a sentence)
planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)
patronizing; expecting gratitude in return; acting like one is doing someone a favor; condescending
dilettantish business; amateurish business
lookup function; search function
to be very far apart from; to be remote; to be quite different from
chord; "on" reading of a kanji
composition; setting (of music)