limited-express ticket (usu. needed in addition to a basic fare ticket); special-express ticket
to be scattered around; to be all over the place
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
mockery by means of excessive praise; damning with lavish praise; backhanded compliment
to take advantage of (someone's) weakness
person in line (for ...); person expected to ...
sleazebag; asshole; shithead; lowlife
betting ticket; betting slip
shabby; mean; sorry; dingy
field overseer; site foreman
to make oneself available (free)
fund-raising; collection of funds
nothing to sneeze at; pretty impressive
one jump; one flight; (at) once; (in) one stroke
treat; banquet; feast; thank you (for the meal); that was a delicious meal
karaoke box; club with individual rooms that can be rented with karaoke machines
in contrast to ...; unlike ...; while ...; whereas ...
trouble; problem; mess; difficulty; nuisance
common cattail (Typha latifolia); common bulrush; common reedmace
cheers; bottoms-up; toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something); drinking one's glass dry
common gull (Larus canus); mew gull; gull (Laridae spp.); seagull
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens); Japanese women's hairstyle comprised of a long braid tied up in a loop with a ribbon (ca. 1885)
to show mercy; to show sympathy; to have compassion; to be kind
special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi); secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu
value; worth; virtue; blessing
to disappear; to vanish; to abscond; to decamp
forward; officious; impertinent; intrusive
sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)
jumping straight to the business, ...; I know this is abrupt, but ...; let's skip the pleasantries; getting to the point
to cause casualties; to result in deaths
A common name for the area around Akihabara Station in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan, famous for being the centre of modern Japanese popular culture and a major shopping district for video games, anime, manga, electronics and computer-related goods.
medicine manufacture; drug manufacture
scar (e.g. from operation, injection); trace; mark (e.g. skid marks)