difficult voyage; stormy passage; hard flight; rough going; running into trouble; proceeding with difficulty
to trick; to cheat; to deceive
very easy; piece of cake; child's play; before breakfast
malicious; vicious; malignant; shoddy; inferior; poor-quality
lawfulness; propriety; reasonableness; appropriateness; legality; legitimacy
to take (be in) charge of
nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)
left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable
business; enterprise; venture; (social) project; undertaking; enterprise
customs (duties); duty; tariff
and (also); both ... and; as well as
diverse; various; wide-ranging
owner (esp. of a business)
particular; special; exceptional; particularly; especially; exceptionally
series; sequence; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary
sensible; perceptive; quick to understand; understanding; sympathetic
Old Imperial Family; former Imperial family; eleven former houses of the Imperial Family stripped of membership in 1947
single-minded; intent; determined; wholehearted; earnest; devoted (to)
charity; benevolence; philanthropy; (love for) humanity; fraternity; brotherhood
to relate to; to have one's feelings understood
to begin to dance; to break into a dance
to aspire to; to aim for; (arch.) to give a gift (as a token of gratitude, goodwill, etc.); (arch.) to perform a memorial service
worldly desires; materialistic desires
management; administration; operation; running (a business); conducting
postwar period; period after Second World War
acute stress reaction; acute stress disorder; psychological shock; mental shock; emotional shock; emotional trauma
muscular pain; myalgia; aching muscles; sore muscles
outside of one's area of expertise; outside one's field
to defeat (someone) in an argument; to argue (someone) down; to confute (someone); to refute (someone)
before one knows; unnoticed; unawares
to stimulate one's appetite; to whet one's appetite
candidacy; standing as a candidate; bidding (to host an event, e.g. the Olympics)
blowing repeatedly (e.g. to cool something down); huffing and puffing; puffing and panting; struggling (with work, studies, etc.); having difficulty
young bird; chick; fledgling; hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival
as a child; when one was a child