Vocabulary

frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus)

bowl cut; mushroom cut

begging; pestering; pleading; coaxing

garbage collection point; place to leave rubbish; designated garbage area

Nanking Massacre (1937); Rape of Nanking

Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927)

robber

important witness; material witness; primary witness

educational facility established in affiliation with a government agency

the point of ...; the place where ...; the part where ...; a position described as ...

thrown kiss; blown kiss; air kiss

Tanigaki Faction (of the LDP)

Koga Faction (of the LDP)

Machimura Faction (of the LDP)

Ibuki Faction (of the LDP)

Shisuikai (faction of the Liberal Democratic Party); Nikai faction

Former Watanabe Faction (of the LDP)

Yamasaki faction (of the Liberal Democratic Party)

Kinmirai Seiji Kenkyūkai (faction of the Liberal Democratic Party); Ishihara faction

Komura Faction (of the LDP)

Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo (faction of the LDP)

Iko-kai (faction of the LDP)

Tsushima Faction (of the LDP)

Aso faction (of the Liberal Democratic Party); Shikōkai

showing no sign of; not giving the slightest indication of; saying nothing at all about; not breathing a word of

Y2K compliant

Y2K compliant

many times

that is in

here and there; everywhere

wattle (of a bird's neck)

wattle (of a bird's neck)

hysteresis

to already have enough; to already have what one needs

box for shipping seafood (usually made of styrofoam)

as stated; verbatim; literally

soup

chicken bones; chicken carcass

Sunday school

birthday party