you're welcome; don't mention it; not at all; my pleasure
maternity leave; paternity leave
long-handled Chinese spear; lance; weapon; arms; grip of a bow; parade float decorated with long-handled Chinese spears
kitchen knife; carving knife; (arch.) cooking; (arch.) food
hum; hmm; hm hm (light chuckle with mouth closed); uh-huh; mm; hmm
very; greatly; exceedingly
good flavor; good flavour; delicacy; dainty
fresh; refreshing; invigorating; clear (e.g. voice); fluent; eloquent
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
train (esp. long distance train); steam train
to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)
Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean sea (oceanography)
Sunday; day (of the month); counter for days; Japan
inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
around the world; throughout the world
end; limit; bounds; extremity; result; fate
(flight of) stone steps; stone stairway
lodging; putting up at a hotel
equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
Catholic priest; abbe; reverend father; minister; padre
early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period); early Japanese Christian
one long cylindrical thing; one film, TV show, etc.; one version; one book; a certain book; ippon; one point
to approach; to draw near
floating; drifting; weightlessness; softly; gently; lightly
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
close associate; close aide; brains-truster
to act as an agent for; to intermediate; to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to convey (a message)
when in Rome, do as the Romans do
custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice
steam; vapour; vapor; steamboat; steam locomotive
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
invention; intelligent; clever; (arch.) making sense (of something); (arch.) understanding