noun:

• US Forces, Japan; USFJ

~と adverb:

• sound of living, moving water - onomatopoeia

noun:

• various containers; miscellaneous receptacles
• small wooden plate on which offerings for a Shinto home shine are placed

noun:

• deportment; behavior; carriage

adjective:

• coarse; crude - Ōsaka dialect ➜ 粗雑

noun:

• fiscal structure

noun:

• buckling

noun:

• trench fever

noun:

• Korean person living in Japan

noun:

• remnants of an enemy army

noun / adjectival noun:

• utterly callous; atrociously brutal; cruel and inhuman - four character idiom

expression:

• cannot help (doing); have no choice but to ➜ ざるを得ない

noun:

• mess; sorry state; plight; sad sight - derogatory term

suffix:

• -ways; -wards - indicates direction
• in the act of ...; just as one is ... - after the -masu stem of a verb
• manner of ...; way of ... - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 様【さま】

noun:

• succession to or inheritance of property

noun:

• something written for fun; calligraphy written for entertainment

noun:

• humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

noun:

• evidence (of a crime)

noun:

• inconsequential (fictional) character; worthless character; mook - colloquialism

noun:

• draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; strainer; sieve
• something full of holes ➜ ざる法【ざるほう】
• zaru soba - abbreviation ➜ ざる蕎麦
• strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish - colloquialism

noun:

• reeling by hand (esp. silk); hand filature ［座繰り・坐繰り・座繰・坐繰］

noun / ~する noun:

• counter sinking (making conical depression so screw-heads don't protrude above surface); spot facing (machining a flat space for bolt head, etc.); spotfacing - esp. 座ぐり

noun:

• hollowing out (e.g. wooden chair seat, scallop pattern on roof, etc.) - esp. 座刳り

noun:

• multi-person cell; shared cell

noun:

• association of reservists

noun:

• coordinate transformation

noun:

• prison warden

noun / ~する noun:

• being ashamed and angry