Tengoku ni Namida wa Iranai – Vocabulary list

支し店てん

branch office; branch store

1

本ほん店てん

head office; main office; main store; this store; our store

1

デパート

department store; department

8

大おお火か事じ

big fire (buildings, etc. on fire)

2

火か事じ

fire; conflagration

2

グループ

group (usu. of people)

1

テコ入いれ

supporting; shoring up; promotion; propping-up; jacking-up; manipulation

1

持もち直なおす

to recover; to rally; to improve; to pick up

1

嗅かぎ回まわる

to sniff around; to snoop around; to nose about

1

隔かく離り

isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine

1

話はなしが分わかる

down to earth; reasonable; able to deal with

1

話わ題だいになる

to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

2

綱つな

rope; cord; line; grand champion's braided belt

1

づたい

along (wall, coast, river, etc.); alongside; following

2

女じょ店てん員いん

saleswoman; shopgirl

1

昭しょう和わ

Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned

2

西せい暦れき

Common Era; CE; Christian Era; Western (Gregorian) calendar

5

老舗しにせ

long-established shop; shop of long standing; old shop

2

世せ情じょう

the ways of the world; human nature

1

聡さとい

clever; smart; sharp (ear, etc.); sensitive; discerning

2

除のけ者ものにする

to exclude (someone); to shun; to ignore; to leave out; to ostracize

1

日にち露ろ戦せん争そう

Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

1

皇こう紀き

Imperial era; system of counting years from the start of Emperor Jinmu's reign in 660 BC

1

九くん六ろく

ozeki ranked wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank

1

太たい平へい洋よう戦せん争そう

Pacific War (1941-1945)

2

大だい東とう亜あ戦せん争そう

Greater East Asian War (1941-1945); Pacific War

1

平へい成せい

Heisei era (1989.1.8-2019.4.30)

1

原げん爆ばく

atomic bomb; A-bomb

1

降こう参さん

surrender; submission; capitulation; being defeated (e.g. by a problem); giving up; giving in

1

陸りく軍ぐん

army

2

上じょう層そう部ぶ

top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile

1

無む能のう

incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person

1

空くう母ぼ

aircraft carrier

1

機き動どう部ぶ隊たい

mobile troops; mechanized unit; mechanised unit; naval task force

1

構こう想そう

plan; plot; idea; conception; vision; scheme

1

古ふるくさい

stale; old fashioned; hackneyed; trite; antiquated; obsolete

1

艦かん

warship

2

巨きょ砲ほう

huge gun

1

対たい米べい

relating to the USA; toward America; with America

1

骨ほね抜ぬき

boning (fish or meat); deboning; watering down (a plan, bill, etc.); dilution; taking the backbone out of; weakening

1

政まつりごと

rule; government

1

戦せん犯ぱん

war criminal; person responsible for a team's defeat

1

経けい済ざい白はく書しょ

economic white paper

1

経けい済ざい大たい国こく

economic superpower; economic powerhouse

1

茫ぼう然ぜん

dumbfounded; overcome with surprise; in blank amazement; in a daze

1

ガシャン

crash; smash; crunch; bang; breaking sound

5

切きり替かわる

to change completely; to switch (to); to shift (to another mode)

6

不ふ審しん者しゃ

suspicious person

2

鉄てっ拳けん

tightly clenched fist

1

バネ

spring; spring (in one's legs); bounce; springboard; impetus

1

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Vocabulary list: Tengoku ni Namida wa Iranai