pressure; stress; pressure (e.g. political); coercion; arm-twisting
combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting
knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
huh?; eh?; what?; oh; hey!; look!
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
interpretation (i.e. oral translation); interpreter
comprehension; consent; understanding; OK; roger (on two-way radio)
to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring
to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound
therefore; consequently; accordingly; for that reason
suddenly; unexpectedly; by chance; accidentally; lightly; nimbly
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
(not even) an inch; (not even) a little bit; (lit.) one millimeter
closely (packed, lined up, etc.); tightly; densely; (work) sufficiently
to taper to a point; to become pointed; to become sharp; to look displeased; to look sour; to be on edge
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly; (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight
to stick into; to pierce; to run into
Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures; Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)