根

sugar beet

to have a perverse character; to have a twisted personality

island country mentality; insular spirit; insularism; insularity

Idiomatic expression

in the same breath; hardly had the words been said

to take root; to strike root

mercantile disposition; having a nose for profit; commercialism; mercenary spirit

snobbery; snobbishness; philistinism; vulgar and ostentatious nature (disposition)

Nerima daikon (variety of daikon with a long, thick root)

being outpersevered

Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)

spirit of true craftsman; (craftsman's) pride in his work

roots of herbs and barks of trees used in Chinese medicine

battledore and shuttlecock game (played at the beginning of the year)

to pour one's heart and soul into

Paris tetraphylla (flowering plant closely related to herb Paris)

grass-roots movement

underhand character; thievish nature

to strike at the root of an evil

Food, cooking

hanetsuki gyoza; gyoza with wings

bureaucratism; bureaucratic nature

the island country of Japan; the Japanese Isles

Fishing

hook getting caught on something underwater

mercenary spirit; greed; avarice; base nature

townsman's (independent) spirit; mercantile spirit