Vocabulary

circumstances

sincerity

cranial nerves; cerebral nerves

hot wind

Public Employment Security Office

protein

standing tree; standing timber

wind pressure

leading figure; influential figure; mogul

price collapse

(geographic) South Pole

pay cut

medicinal use

being knowledgeable about Japan; being well versed in Japanese affairs

defection from or leaving a (political) party

being carried away by a current

destruction; collapse; crumbling

in one's hurry

abatement; weakening

offshoot; branch; fork

self-immolation; burning oneself to death; suicide by fire

Orders of the Sacred Treasure

preparing for action or battle

landscape gardening; landscape architecture

early-summer breeze

confused fight; free-for-all; melee; dogfight; scuffle; rough-and-tumble

inner citadel

(a pair of) bookends

top of a waterfall

firing one shot at a time; single-shot gun

short

to spring; to bound; to bounce

bullet hole; bullet mark

geology

land rent

horizon (related to land)

lateness; tardiness; arriving late

tearoom; tea house; tea-ceremony room; tea arbour; tea arbor

changing clothes; change of clothes

middle-distance (races)