assignment (of a person to somewhere); attachment (of a person to another unit, organization, etc.)
relaxed; familiar; easy to access; friendly
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
not to mention ...; needless to say ...; not to speak of ...; (arch.) negligent; (arch.) neglectful; (arch.) careless
gas stove; gas cooker; gas range
to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate
to delay; to postpone; to put off; to slow down; to hold up; to retard
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk
range; stove; cooker; microwave oven
bad reputation; disgrace; unpopularity
somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why
to become a little hungry; to become a bit peckish
thankfully; fortunately; luckily; mercifully
dry snacks (e.g. crackers, nuts, dried squid, esp. to go with drinks)
job transfer; job relocation; intra-company transfer
umeboshi; pickled dried ume; pickled dried plum
Shinshū (alt. name of former Shinano province)
buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles
acquisition; obtaining; coming to hand
abundant; plentiful; rich; ample
rough; crude; sloppy; miscellaneous
(unrefined) brown sugar; muscovado
sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum)
amount of sugar; sugar content
extract (of plants, meat, etc.); essence; concentrate; concentrated stock
cookie; biscuit; cookie (browser-related file sent from a WWW server)