浪

wave; billow; ripple; breaker; swell

Idiomatic expression

ups and downs

(something) advancing step by step; (something) surging forward inopposably; succession of changes

Art, aesthetics

tendency; (new) wave

failing entrance exams for repeated years

waste; extravagance

tsunami; tidal wave

wandering; roaming; drifting

Now deprecated

vagrant; vagabond; tramp; homeless person; hobo; bum

vagrancy; wandering; nomadism

Company name

Sina Corporation

high waves; heavy seas

Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)

romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale

(nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; great undertaking; epic adventure

(full-length) novel

romance; love affair

romanticism

whitecaps; white-crested waves

thief

ronin; lordless samurai

Counter

person who has spent X years after graduating high school attempting to get admitted to (a specific) university

juvenile vagrant; street urchin; waif; guttersnipe

student waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination

vagrant; vagabond; drifter

vagrancy; vagabondage; wander around

wasteful person; spendthrift

vagrant habits; vagabondism; wanderlust

naniwabushi; variety of sung narrative popular during the Edo period

waves; billows; surge

failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later

vagrant