jpdb beta

borderline; boundary

1

designer

1

isolated island; outlying island; leaving an island

1

piecework that can be done at home; outwork

1

ideal type

1

city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

1

deeply emotive; moving

1

dizzying (speed, changes, etc.); rapid; drastic; bewildering; hectic; bustling (e.g. world)

1

pager; beeper

1

personal handy-phone system; PHS; low-powered mobile network system developed in Japan and once popular in parts of Asia

1

(Japanese) feature phone (as opposed to a smartphone); mobile phone designed for the Japanese market (with specialized features only available in Japan)

1

educator; teacher; educationalist

1

mind-set change; changing one's way of thinking; attitude reform

1

worldwide; global; international; world-famous; world-class

1

nursing; care; caregiving; caring

1

quality of life

1

to anticipate; to expect; to place confidence in; to put trust in; to find promising; to see good prospects (in)

1

person who is overly conscious about appearing interesting (esp. online)

1

stray cat; alley cat

2

meeting; assembly; gathering; congregation; convention; rally

1

(reciprocal) communication; (coming to a) mutual understanding

1

high; noble; refined; advanced

1

philosophical

1

to bloom

1

staff room

5

foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse

1

when it comes to ...; if one were to speak of ...; by ... you mean ...; when you say ... you mean that ...; whenever ...; if it's ... then (without fail)

1

deputy head teacher; vice principal

7

experience; being accustomed (to something); poise in a critical situation

1

hunter

1

to confute; to argue down; to persuade; to convince; to prevail on

1

floorboard

1

here and there; in places

1

to rot; to decay; to die in obscurity; to be forgotten with time

2

school; school building; schoolhouse

1

closing of a school; closed school

1

hut; house; boarding house; residence hall; (arch.) one day's march (approx. 12.2 km)

1

cleaning equipment closet; broom closet

1

mop

11

close to the wall; alongside the wall

5

going to and leaving work; clocking in and clocking out

1

job title; name of one's position

2

head of year; teacher in charge of all classes for a whole year

1

adviser; advisor; consultant; school club supervisor (usu. a teacher); school club manager

1

civic guidance; non-curricular educational guidance; medical guidance

1

part-time work

1

not care; not caring

1

(being in) the black; surplus; black letter

1

with a click; with a snap

1

rapping sound (and other sounds when associated with poltergeists)

1