digital signage display; electronic billboard; digital signage system
management resource; management resources
marriage due to unintended pregnancy; shotgun wedding
personal guidance; tutoring
katsudon; pork cutlet served on top of a bowl of rice
cram school; part-time school preparing students for entrance examinations
profit motive; (with) the intention to profit; profit-making intention; for profit
person who gives the right (correct) answer
enrolling at a cram school
imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing
jade plant (Crassula argentea, Crassula ovata)
roundness; rotundity; mellowness; maturity
school grades; academic results
instructor; advisor; adviser
to be lacking in options; to be too few
decayed tree; rotted tree; decayed wood; obscure, meaningless life (metaphor)
middle and high school; medium and high (level)
keeper of imperial archives; worker skilled in the brewing of sake or soy sauce
success or failure; result
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting
lord of a manor; estate steward
ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip; walking in large steps; walking with a disabled leg; someone with a disabled leg
Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa); yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata); Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus); printing block; catalpa bow; catalpa medium
watch stand; watcher's seat; attendant's booth (e.g. at an onsen)
high speed; rapidity; rapid-service train (not as fast as express); rapid train
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
the capital city (often Tokyo) area (typically within 50 km of city's centre) (center)
interrogation room; interview room; sweatbox
not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it
transfer (trains, buses, etc.); change; switch (to another ideology, party, system, method, etc.); change; switching (stock); chromosomal crossover
assessment; rating; grade; evaluation
divining sticks; counting; calculation
this and that; such and such