job transfer away from one's home; taking up a new post leaving one's family behind
around 40 (years of age, esp. women)
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
junk; rubbish; trash; garbage; odds and ends
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous
to taste; to savor; to relish
thief; burglar; robber; theft; burglary; robbery
Japanese food; Japanese-style meal; Japanese cuisine
umeboshi; pickled dried ume; pickled dried plum
pickles made in brine and fermented rice bran (esp. vegetables, also meat, fish, eggs, etc.)
endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint
Japanese (people, language, style)
mixing things of different type (alternately or at the same time); mixture; dish of noodles, seafood, vegetables (from Nagasaki)
growth; breeding; growing up (in, as); upbringing
popular use; circulation; to pass as; to pass for
person from the Kansai region
in good health; alive and well; going strong
to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen
storage room; storeroom; lumber room
to finish ...; to do ... completely
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
field; plain; prairie; moor
silver-gray hair; silver-grey hair; attractive older man with some gray hair
broad bean (Vicia faba); horse bean; fava bean
a long time (since the last time); it's been a while (since I last saw, mailed, etc., you)
physical condition; state of health
patient's condition; pathology
heart; guts; nerve; central part
expansion; extension; enlargement; escape; ESC
confidence; trust; faith; credit (finance)
to set up (a house, store, etc.); to build; to have at the ready (e.g. a gun); to hold in preparation (e.g. a camera); to adopt a posture; to assume a stance; to put on an air
leader; reader; reading book; reader (i.e. someone who reads); microreader; dotted line (in printing)
personnel affairs; human affairs; human resources; HR
head office; main office; main shrine; this company; this shrine
visiting ill or distressed people; writing get-well letters; get-well gifts; get-well letters; expression of sympathy; expression of concern