to have a rumor circulating
colorectal cancer; large bowel cancer
please be careful; please take care
complete financial statement; summing up; concluding
angry voice; one's voice when shouting with anger
perforation; punching; boring; drilling
to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way
population ageing (aging)
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle
continuously; from beginning to end; from first to last
child consultation center; children's welfare center
to write to; to send word to; to hand over (official business)
children's home; child care institution; orphanage
solicitude; consideration; concern; (excessive) kindness
Tsugaru (Western region of Aomori Prefecture)
being very popular; being in great demand
naming; christening; fiance; fiancee
cecum; caecum; (vermiform) appendix; appendicitis
drawing blood; collecting blood
clinical (e.g. pathology, physiology)
teachers, superiors, and men of prominence
recitation; reciting from memory
heir; inheritor; successor
Aomori (city, prefecture)
hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.)
inside the House; inside the Diet; inside the hospital
in swarms; in great crowds
to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon
oak; daimyo oak; Japanese emperor oak; Quercus dentata