sticking to (an opinion, theory, belief, etc.); clinging to; adherence; persistence; insistence
harmonious; peaceful; happy; amicable; smooth; free from trouble
counter-proposal; counter-suggestion
solution; solution strategy
feeling good; feeling at ease; feeling easy
opinion; intention; thought
Japanese (people, language, style)
employer's house; master's house
(feeling of) identification; sense of unity
(a feeling of) identification (with); sense of belonging
Bushido; samurai code of chivalry
subordinate work; assistant; servant
wage laborer; wage earner; paid worker
prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum
verbalizing; putting into words
Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
lifetime; one's whole life; all through life
to serve out one's apprenticeship; to serve out one's time
career; carrier (disease, signal, warship, etc.); carrier; telephone company; career government employee
coined word; coinage; neologism
one's employer's house; one's employer; place of apprenticeship
three generations; three periods; third generation
to cross over; to go across; to extend; to cover; to range
to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (arch.) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); (arch.) retainer
widow; divorced woman not remarried; unmarried woman
postwar period; period after Second World War
household (electrical) appliances; home appliances; consumer electronics
to maintain; to continue to have
computer game for men featuring beautiful women characters (usu. adult game)
form; method; system; formula
manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party
wages; pay; rental payment
to replace; to move; to change the position of
dishonesty; injustice; dishonor; dishonour; ingratitude
shame; disgrace; raping; rape
humanity and justice (esp. in Confucianism); virtue; duty; formal greeting (between yakuza, street vendors, gamblers, etc.); (gang's) moral code