electronic book; e-book; electronic banking; electron beam; exchangeable bond
cannot be helped; unavoidable
miserable; wretched; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; sorrowful
(heavy) drinker; drunkard; tippler; boozer
to commit seppuku; to commit harakiri; to take responsibility (and resign); (arch.) to laugh until one splits one's side
custom; habit; customary practice
movie director; film director
coming to Japan; visit to Japan; arrival in Japan
blue; azure; green; pale (facial color); gray; unripe
meteor; shooting star; falling star
chance; opportunity; machine; aircraft; counter for aircraft; counter for (remaining) lives
looking and listening; (television) viewing; (public) attention; interest; (signal) reception
astonishment; amazement; surprise; fright; shock
hard-liners; diehards; (young) man with traditionally masculine interests; tough boy; hard news; reporter who covers political and economic affairs
outsider; layman; amateur
loop; band; loop (in a program); looping (of a video, slideshow, etc.); repeating (e.g. of a conversation); time loop (in fiction); temporal loop
shelf; ledge; rack; trellis
stoic; stoical; self-disciplined; abstemious; Stoic (philosopher)
dancing; dance; iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance; eating live seafood (e.g. squid, ice gobies) while it is still moving; soft spot (in the skull of an infant)
process; procedure; sequence; protocol; instruction
decomposition; putrefaction; putrescence; corruption; degeneracy; decay
trader; dealer; businessperson; fellow trader; people in the same trade
National Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1947-); Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947); legislative assembly; parliament
despotic government; autocracy
range (of a rifle, missile, etc.)
supreme ruler; generalissimo; president (of Taiwan); führer; fuehrer
head; chief; boss; leader
bizarre; strange; weird; grotesque
commander-in-chief; generalissimo
grasshopper; locust (of superfamily Acridoidea)
(complete) set; outfit; kit; all; everything
to place (in position); to fix; to install; to seat (someone); to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)
teary-eyed; damp (e.g. skin, hair); moist
to defeat (someone) in an argument; to argue (someone) down; to confute (someone); to refute (someone)
gathering to remember a deceased person; memorial gathering; farewell party; goodbye party; send-off party
to set one's mind on doing; to get the idea of doing; to make up one's mind
lucky day; auspicious day; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
Aomori (city, prefecture)
summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season