worldly affairs; public affairs
giant; great man; Tokyo Giants (baseball team)
anthropoid ape; anthropoid; ape
encounter; being confronted with (e.g. difficulty); meeting with (e.g. accident)
hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little
to shelter (e.g. a fugitive); to harbour; to harbor; to hide; to give refuge to
to commit a crime; to commit a sin
world; society; people; the public
fruit of a tree; nut; berry
Japanese hare (Lepus brachyurus); wild rabbit
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)
the mere shadow of one's former self; the ruin of what one once was
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
siblings; brothers and sisters; brothers; siblings-in-law; brothers-in-law; mate
Mt.; Mount; (fig.) Mt.; (fig.) Mount
unknown; obscure; insignificant
filling; packing material; stuffing; padding
gathering spot; haunt; rendezvous; meeting place; hang-out
lizard; skink lizard (Scincidae spp.)
grass; weed; (arch.) ninja; not genuine; substandard; LOL
quacking; cackling; loudly (snore, complain, argue, etc.); noisily; with a buzzing sound (e.g. speaker); with a crackling sound
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
coincident with; while; simultaneously
activity; action; occupation; business; sexual intercourse; sex
surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality
size; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months; sic bo (Macao dice game)
to crowd together in a confined space; to gather and make a commotion
now that you mention it; come to think of it; that reminds me; on that subject; speaking of which
bathing; to bathe; to take a bath; to enter a bath
deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid
sign of life; human presence; humanity; humaneness
to lose one's way; to get lost
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
war; battle; match; game; competition
(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of