Hodo Station (news program on Asahi television)
to encourage to do (something); to urge a person on; to demand action; to spank; to give a spanking; to hit someone on the bottom
escorted person; person being guarded; ballast tamper; tamping machine
room connecting the two main rooms of a building; intermediate room
noninvolvement; nonintervention; neutrality
beautiful tree; tree producing beautiful flowers
being covered with water (i.e. in a flood); being submerged; being inundated; flooding
extremely hot day; day on which the temperature rises above 35 degrees Celsius (official definition)
Japanese national (esp. abroad); fellow countryman
to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak
(being) off night duty; end of a night shift
opening of a park (theme park, botanical garden etc.)
seeing things in a favourable light (favorable)
decomposition; ulceration
civil affairs; civil case
fiend for work; workaholic; career-minded person
of inquiring mind; eager to study; enthusiastic in studying
person one is dating; significant other; partner; boyfriend; girlfriend
omitted character; omitted letter
common occurrence; everyday occurrence; not an uncommon case; normal thing; everyday affair
working one's employees hard; being a slave-driver
former boyfriend; ex-boyfriend
leader of the pack (of a group of kids); neighborhood bully (neighbourhood)
to overstep the mark; to go too far; to overdo it
surmise (about somebody's feelings); guess; conjecture
demon of ill health; disease
to dispatch (someone); to send; to make go fast (a car, horse, etc.); to drive; to move quickly (one's pen, eyes, etc.); to run (one's eyes over something)
it doesn't matter what; anything is fine
to factor in; to take into account; to include in one's considerations
misprint; misspelling; typo; typographical error; erratum
(one's) wife; (someone's) wife; landlady
stubble; unshaven face; beard one has because one is too lazy to shave; 5-o'clock shadow
newspaper story (article, account)