Vocabulary

hot wallet (cryptocurrency)

mass start (esp. in speed skating)

God

charity show; benefit performance

traveling entertainer who wears a lion mask and does tumbling acts

to roar; to howl

white return; white-paper income-tax return; type of income tax return filing which does not require maintaining accounting books

hard feelings; (mutual) resentment

slaver; slave trader

to share (life's) joys and sorrows (with); to share the good and the bad (with); to stick together through thick and thin

treating (someone) like an object

Olympian; Olympic athlete

quarrelsome; easy to anger; quick to lose temper

skeleton (of a building); frame; framework

province of the second highest rank (ritsuryō system)

getting paid to go out drinking (usu. a set amount to cover the taxi fare home)

to bind (a criminal) with rope; to arrest; to seize

person asking for advice; inquirer; consulter; consultor; counselee; querent (in tarot, astrology, etc.)

(for a conversation) to wander from the subject; to get off track

plan for the invasion of the Soviet Far East in July 1941

brothel (esp. one that allows for penetrative intercourse)

Foreign Intervention in Russia (1917-1922)

Siberia Intervention (1918-1922); Siberian Expedition

towards the Soviet Union; with the Soviet Union

national defence forces; national security forces

spy working for the Edo shogunate; oniwaban

three banishment punishments (of different severity; under ritsuryō system)

to twist a thread

to set a trap

to press (someone to do something)

political show

Buddha; Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha (5th century BCE?)

deferred asset

pimp; procurer; someone who makes their living selling women into prostitution

man-eating shark (esp. great white shark)

man-eater (e.g. lion, shark)

lake shaped like the kanji "heart" character (traditional Japanese gardens)

(single-pin) connector (e.g. RCA, 3.5mm audio); jack plug

Damascus (Syria)

city bus; municipal bus service