confections; sweets; candy; cake
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
Don (Spanish honorific); bigwig; important person
delicacy; tact; sensitivity; consideration; thoughtfulness
cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a building)
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs
how many years; how long; what year
poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious
restoration; recovery; rehabilitation; recovery (from an illness); recuperation; convalescence
close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related
(another's) son; boy; young master; green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world
face; looks; countenance; vestige; trace; reminder
failure; mistake; blunder
absolutely; definitely; unconditionally
no big deal; no match; not worth worrying about
training (for a skill, job, sport, etc.); practice; working out; workout; (strength, weight) training
to find fault (with); to cavil (at); to carp (about); to throw a wet blanket (on); to throw cold water (on); to jinx
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
(common) cold; influenza; flu; ague; inflammatory respiratory system illness (in general)
important; essential; significant; major; key; principal
flag; boolean value; something that foreshadows a future event or outcome (in a film, novel, etc.)
to stand (something) up; to put upright; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to let out; to raise (a cloud of dust, smoke, etc.)
tending a store; salesperson; sales clerk; shop assistant
change; alternation; rotation; replacement; substitution; shift
soft to the touch (e.g. fur, feathers); fluffy; to stroke (something fluffy); to rub; to pat
café; cafe; coffeehouse; hostess bar (serving western alcoholic beverages; Taisho and Showa period)
double; double bed; hotel room with a double bed; double-breasted; double-cuffed; double width (of cloth; usu. 1.42 meters); doubles (e.g. in tennis)
theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan
pipe; tube; bobbin (in a shuttle or spinning wheel)
overthrow; defeat; bringing down; knockdown
(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad
down-train; train heading toward the ending point of its route; down-slope; downward going; downbound (esp. away from Tokyo); downstream
decisive blow; game-winning hit (e.g. in baseball)
to fall fast asleep; to be confined to one's bed; to be laid up
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse