dark-natured; gloomy; dour; moody; insular; glum
disposal; abandonment; scrapping; annulment; cancellation; abrogation
female junior high school student
just-harvested; something freshly harvested or gathered (usually produce)
celebrating recovery from illness
letter of resignation; request for retirement
thread-sail filefish (Stephanolepis cirrhifer); skinning (an animal); stripping (a tree of its bark); barking
goddamn idiot; moron; nitwit
request for a police search; application to the police to search for a missing person
unpasteurized beer; draft beer; draught beer
to leave home; to leave one's parental roof; to leave the nest; to go out on one's own
to stay on; to remain; to hold out; to stop (doing); to give up
review (of learned material); revision
to excuse oneself; to take one's leave; to quit; to resign; to decline; to turn down
being put off (by someone's words, behaviour, etc.); being taken aback; recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.); zooming out or pulling the camera back to get a wider image (in film and TV)
Tochigi prefecture (Kanto area)
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
to escape being burned (esp. of a building or the items in it); to survive a fire
to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness); to cross a pass
specimen; sample; object to be examined
euphemistic; circumlocutory; roundabout; indirect
prison; detention house; detention center; jail
untraceable; long lost; one's whereabouts being unknown
to kidnap; to abduct; to force to go to (e.g. an event)
inquiry; enquiry; query; reference
to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (trust, patronage of customers, etc.); to keep (an employee, someone's interest, etc.); to save (someone's life)
to be powered on; to be turned on
lisping; poorly expressed; unclear (wording); imprecise (expression)
Nagano prefecture (Chūbu area)
living by oneself; living alone
head of a garden; kindergarten principal; nursery school principal; park director; zoo director; head of a plantation
bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza); dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn); Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)
security firm; security company
stop bullshitting me; you're fucking kidding me; you're full of shit
physiological phenomenon; physiological response
gift; boon; (good) result; fruit (e.g. of one's efforts)
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy