educational system; school system
easy; simple; there's no way that ...
criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach
easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic
genius; prodigy; natural gift
little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)
summons to appear before the Diet
funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
progress; advance; improvement; development
time of departure; (on the) point of departure; just as one is leaving
lesson; section (in an organization); division; counter for lessons and chapters (of a book)
section manager; section chief
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
contribution (e.g. to newspaper)
panty-less; wearing no underwear
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run
entertainment (of guests; esp. in the corporate world); treating (to food and drinks); wining and dining
eyeball; special feature; centerpiece; special program; loss leader; sunny-side up fried egg
hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa); Japanese cypress
bathing powder; bathwater additive; bath salt
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
leak (of information); leakage (of electricity)
careful selection; careful screening; hand-picking
Chinese (lineage, ancestry, ethnicity, etc.); Sino-
to have an eye on; to zero in on
long-established shop; shop of long standing; old shop