Vocabulary

selling price

cuckoo

millions and millions

richly colored; richly coloured

school affairs

young tree; sapling

(style of) folk song

all-around; across-the-board

dehumidification

intervertebral disk

indirect election

pounding lightly on the shoulders (to relieve stiffness); shoulder massage; massage stick for pounding the shoulders

hypothetical or imaginary enemy

new (residential) area (esp. built on reclaimed land during the Edo period); newly-opened region

opening (of uncultivated land)

street vendor; peddler

the last stage

natural or automatic increase in revenue

disintegration

matchless; unequalled; unequaled

public order; public policy

determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning; determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech

passer-by; traveler; traveller

destination

Dead Sea

self-interest; personal profit

self-interest; selfish desire

personal feelings

extending (e.g. a book); augmenting; enlarging; supplementing

sea chart

embossing a pattern; repoussé; hammering

key money (esp. on an apartment); premium (payment)

checking account; current account

terrible luck (esp. on an omikuji slip); very bad luck

anti-foreign

acting arbitrarily on one's own authority; acting arbitrarily without consultation

dictatorial

dictatorship; despotic government

oil-based

in a company; troupe