to mutually recognize; to agree; to accept
equality (esp. of status); equal footing; equal terms
healthy; sound; wholesome
tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)
to build; to construct; to erect; to build up (a reputation, position, fortune, etc.); to establish (a relationship, household, tradition, etc.); to lay (a foundation)
alright; all right; right on; looking good; OK; okay
justification; rationalization
schedule; program; programme; agenda
trot; half run; jog; girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family
to rush back; to run back
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
recitation (of a poem); chanting; singing; composition (of a poem); composed poem
thrill ride (at an amusement park)
haunted house; spook house; haunted house (attraction); haunted attraction
sale; selling; selling point; gimmick; seller; vendor
one of Japan's foremost; leading in Japan
zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group; rich person
series; sequence; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary
to produce (e.g. movie, play, show, event, musical recording, etc.); to design (e.g. new commercial product, restaurant concept, etc.); to create; production; creation; design
inside the kindergarten; inside the zoo; inside the garden; inside the park
color scheme; colour scheme
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
to raise; to bring up; to rear; to cultivate; to foster; to nurture
Moon; month; moonlight; (a) moon; natural satellite
artificial object; man-made object; artifact; artefact
characteristic (of); peculiar (to)
to become clear (water, air, etc.); to become transparent; to resonate clearly (e.g. voice); to become serene; to become tranquil; to pronounce as an unvoiced sound
fullness; completeness; enhancement; improvement; replenishment; repletion
wider Kinki region (Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Shiga, Wakayama and Fukui prefectures); wider Kansai area
here and there; various places; all around; muddled; confused; in the wrong order
Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)
vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry
to talk on and on; to rattle on; to keep on talking (without pause)
seat (esp. in public places or places with assigned seating); seating
to shake; to sway; to rock; to become unstable; to become unsettled; to be shaken
(breaking) with a snap (of a thread, rope, etc.); (stopping) suddenly (of communications, a practice, etc.); abruptly; completely
(in) the air; midair; sky
head over heels; headlong; head first
to fall; to drop; to set (of the sun or moon); to sink; to decrease (of popularity, quality, speed, sales, etc.); to fall; to be inferior (to)