Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral
enlightenment; development; edification; public awareness; illumination; education
thick amazake; thick sweet sake
editorial committee member; senior staff writer (newspaper)
progress; pace; carriage; step; stage
young and energetic; up-and-coming; new and excellent; newly produced; up-and-comer
considerably; not a little; in no small numbers
staff; stuff; stuffing; filling
foreword; preface; introduction
small number; few; minority
encompassing; covering (exhaustively); including (all of); comprising; comprehending
structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance
one's native language; Japanese
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to
dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation
han; fan; unit that doubles the score of a hand
address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; ci (Chinese literary form); ancillary word
logical connection; chain of reasoning; coherence; blood vessel
folklore studies; folkloristics
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
to boast of; to be proud of; to take pride in
department; section; branch; course; school (e.g. of learning)
summarization; summary; generalization; review (by labour or political movements of past activities, results, etc.)
correspondence; being in accordance with; anaphora
union; joining; conjugation
personnel; members; lineup (of a team); announcement of next day's match-ups
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
justice; fairness; impartiality
strict observance; rigid adherence; scrupulous compliance
different thing; another question; different case
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently
to lie; to cheat; to pretend; to trick; to deceive