spring shower; spring rain
Satsumasendai City (Kagoshima)
tic-tac-toe; noughts and crosses
best position (for doing something); best vantage point
shirizumo; back-to-back sumo; game in which players push each other with their buttocks
plaster; gypsum; calcium sulphate (sulfate)
sudden change; complete change
intestinal environment; microbiome
modern; up-to-date; art nouveau; Beaujolais nouveau (wine); vague; fuzzy
Segway (motorized personal vehicle)
face outline; contours of a face
Red Cross Hospital (91 hospitals in Japan)
main shock (of an earthquake)
getting one's finger caught (e.g. in a door); getting one's finger pinched; jamming one's finger in a door; yakuza finger-cutting ritual
to grasp at straws; to resort to desperate measures
taste; elegance; scenic beauty
study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
hewn stone; quarried stone; ashlar; flagstone
being twice divorced; two-time divorcee; (lit.) two x marks (i.e. two names struck from the family register)
game in which a dangling piece of bread is grabbed in the mouth and raced to the finish line (in school sports festivals)
second year (college) student; sophomore
emergency meeting of the upper house of the Diet (in response to dissolution of the lower house)
vicissitudes; ups and downs
pistil (of a flower); stamen