思

Japanese nightingale (Leiothrix lutea); Peking robin; red-billed leiothrix

Company name

Soshisha Publishing Co., Ltd.

superficial way of thinking; shortsighted thinking; shallow idea

a flexible way of thinking

superficial (shortsighted) way of thinking; half-baked (foolish, ill-advised) idea

romantic thought; philosophy of romance

magical thinking

anti-foreign sentiment; xenophobia; exclusionism; exclusivism

Proverb

you can do anything if you set your mind to; even an ant's thoughts reach the heavens

eschatology; apocalypticism

Organization name

Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought; JCSPT

longing for loved ones

Cold War mentality

Proverb

love and reason do not go together

productive thinking

Proverb; From The Analects of Confucius

to study and not think is a waste; learning without thinking is useless

Often 夢にも思わなかった

not expecting in the slightest; not in one's wildest dreams

Proverb

dreams and fortune-telling are hit-and-miss

Formal or literary term

feelings of strong embarrassment (over one's own actions)

zero-sum thinking

political will

dreadful thought; painful experience; terrible thought; horrendous ordeal

Used to encourage someone to try something

trust me and ...; just take my word for it and ...; think that you have been tricked, and ...

I doubt it, but ...; I find it hard to believe, but ...; it's a long shot, but ...