recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
easily moved to tears; given to weeping; lachrymose
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
lily (Lilium spp.); yuri; genre of comics and novels about female homosexuality
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
to avoid (physical contact with); to avoid (situation); to ward off; to avert; to put aside; to move out of the way
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
prison; detention house; detention center; jail
insertion; letter drop; things sent to a prisoner; supply of provisions, refreshments, etc. to someone carrying out a task
to take; to carry (something) away; to bear
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
actual spot; scene (of a crime, accident, etc.); (on) site; (on) the ground; filming location; (movie) set
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
the real criminal; true culprit
other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
ball; ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone); bowl; board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)
to pick up; to find; to gather
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
lunch break; noon recess; noon rest period
to weigh on one's mind; to bother one; to be interested (in); to be curious (about); to feel like (doing); to feel inclined to
3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
one thin flat object; one sheet
by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing
such; this sort of; like this
how much; something over; and something; however (much); no matter how
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less