Vocabulary

effectiveness; efficacy; efficaciousness

recovery

troubled times; turbulent times

(heavy) drinker; drunkard; tippler; boozer

appearance (in the eyes of society); decency

installation of a deity in a new shrine; transfer of a shrine

military gains; war results; fruit of battle

rear wheel

Japanese person

Japanese-English

news of someone's death; obituary

infamous; notorious

lower tier; lower step; lower column; lower berth; bottom shelf

stock-farming; livestock farming; cattle breeding

ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy

main office

demon; devil; evil spirit; monster; goblin; apparition

full stomach; filling one's stomach; eating one's fill

weightlessness; zero gravity

dismissal; discharge

acquittal

to face on; to look out on to

tacit approval; tacit permission; connivance; acquiescence; toleration; overlooking

preferential treatment; hospitality; warm reception; cordial welcome

overeagerness; rashness

eternal; everlasting; perpetual; immemorial

separation; isolation

deep-fried food

(Western) dressmaking

business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed

to be entwined; to be involved

to twine; to get tangled; to get entangled; to get caught (in)

side street (often parallel to a main street); back street; alley; alleyway

rear garden; back yard

to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops)

stray bullet

miscarriage; (spontaneous) abortion; abortive birth

(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke)

protuberance; bulge; protrusion; projection; swell

journey; route of a journey