making an incision in the abdomen; performing a laparotomy
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
putting on the market; putting on sale; making commercially available; commercial; off-the-shelf; store-bought
prince; subordinate Kumano shrine
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
subterranean drain; culvert; conduit
participation; taking part in; participating in; being concerned in
seeing for the first time; first sight; first meeting; sight-reading
being full; (counting) completed years (e.g. when calculating age); full (years, months, etc.); Manchuria
tenpai; fishing (i.e. needing one more tile for completion)
dora tile revealed when a player declares a kong
expresses displeasure or disapproval; just from (doing); simply by
adding (an extra amount); increasing; tacking on (a charge)
value honor; round wind, seat wind, and dragon tiles; winning hand containing one kong (or pung) of a value honor
medal; shield; card on which dharani (etc.) are written; notice board (in a Zen temple); tile (mahjong, dominos, etc.)
blue; sad; down (in the dumps)
hostess bar; bar with female companions for male customers
leader of a crime syndicate's henchmen; young leading subordinate in yakuza group
seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
money paid to authorities; money paid to the government; money forcibly collected by yakuza bosses from subordinate gang members; contributions levied by gangster organizations on subordinates; money paid to a feudal lord; tribute money
lone criminal; sole perpetrator; crime carried out by one person
rare; uncommon; not often seen
harmful insect; noxious insect; pest; vermin
extermination (of pests); eradication; stamping out (e.g. a social evil)
self-purification; self-cleansing
function; facility; faculty; feature
string; cord; leash; man who is financially dependent on a woman; gigolo; restrictions; conditions
your husband; her husband
to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up
to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for
to claim victims; to leave casualties
half the number; half (of an amount); haploid (organism, cell, etc.); haplont
to be worth; to be worthy of; to deserve; to merit
propulsion; drive; promotion (of a policy, project, movement, etc.); furtherance; advancement
wife; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); trimmings; accompaniment; side (remark)
disappearance (longer than one year after an accident or disaster); missing and presumed dead
declaration of death; pronouncing someone to be dead