patience; endurance; perseverance
bitter melon stir-fried with pork, tofu and other vegetables
going out; outing; leaving (one's home, office, etc.)
to be too numerous; to be too much
competition; rivalry; feeling that something is worth the effort; motivation; enthusiasm
individual plate; single individual's small dish on which food taken from shared serving dishes is placed
handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler
living apart from one's family; living alone; person who lives alone
ordinary person; member of the general public; non-celebrity
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
schedule; program; programme; agenda
to knock together; to strike against each other; to clash; to arrange (e.g. a meeting); to discuss (in advance); to coordinate
to come to know; to perceive; to realize; to realise; to become aware (of)
to interrupt; to interfere; to meddle; to intrude; to butt in; to poke one's nose into
underpopulated area; lightly-populated area
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
chilly; rather cold; somewhat cold
military secret; classified military material; military aircraft
after; post; ex-; after the fact; ex post
retiring from military service
to settle (a problem); to put an end to (a dispute); to be disposed of; to be settled; to come to an end
to keep in pace with; to keep up with; to follow (someone's thought); to understand
Buddhist teachings; Buddhist path; Buddhism; Buddhist temple
one's remaining years; the rest of one's life
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
mixed with; mingled with; interspersed with; dashed with; sprinkled with
day after tomorrow; wrong (e.g. direction)
combination; union; combined; joint; congruence
large number (of); many; majority
appeal; call for something; request; axiom
off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory
to be incomparable; to be completely different matters; to be completely different things
not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means; very hard to manage
rate; ratio; comparatively; contrary to expectations
mental anguish; mental distress
evasion; avoidance; shirking; recusation (of a judge); taking exception (to a judge); challenge
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); shouting repeatedly; pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
interior; inside; internal
losing everything; suffering a total loss; coming to nothing; (lit.) having lost the interest and the principal