placement; fixed position; mapping out; location
basic policy; fundamental policy; fundamental plan of action
amendment; correction; revision; modification; alteration; retouching
review; reconsideration; revision
acquaintance; friend; familiar face
way (of doing things); method; style; school (e.g. of poetry)
nagging; faultfinding; carping; captious
discrimination against women; female discrimination
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
elevation; rise; improvement; advancement; progress
gender gap; male-female divide
firmly rooted; deep-seated
dissipation; prodigality; debauchery
moron; idiot; stupid person
admiration; wonder; astonishment
changing the world; turning the tide; torpedo modified as a suicide weapon (used in WWII)
after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after
family or person with samurai ancestors
in a way that is uncharacteristic of ...; in a way that is unbecoming to ...; in a way that is unbefitting of ...; despite one's position as ...; despite being ...
to handle; to manage; to deal with; to rear; to look after
elegant; refined; polished; high-quality goods; first-class article
new era; new period; new age; new epoch
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
comfortable; easy; calm; loose; spacious
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)
to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to look at (something) from another perspective; to put it the other way round; to visit the same prostitute or geisha for a second time
obstinate; stubborn; obdurate; headstrong; willful; perverse
taciturn; reticent; quiet; silent; untalkative
discord; (on) bad terms (with)
strong opposition; vehement opposition
type of cleromancy divination (described in the Book of Changes) performed with long sticks; The Book of Changes; Yijing; I Ching
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
good or bad luck; fortune
withdrawal; secession; separation; breakaway
daruma; tumbling doll; Bodhidharma; prostitute
prickling; stinging; tingling
plunking (down something heavy); flumping (into a chair)