Vocabulary Browser

thousands die to make one hero

be moderate with your mouth

magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)

decays per second

former Christian missionary who apostatized and converted to Buddhism (during the Edo period)

declaration of a state of emergency

child who has survived the suicide of a parent

using horizontal characters in vertical writing

cooperative buying

consultation hours

radio operator

adaxial

negotiating for permission to film (in a specific location)

unlucky day for starting construction of a house (which would result in a fire that spreads to three adjacent houses)

Volcanic Alert Level

insect rearing cage

branded beef

built-for-sale house

foreign cooperation

arboretum

having absolutely nothing (left)

flooding a company, organization etc. with phone complaints (usu. loosely organized on anonymous online message boards)

deleted residence record

packed meal

pension replacement rate

lawsuit undertaken without legal representation

having bad breath

day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)

bad taste (e.g. in clothes)

marbled meat (esp. beef)