opening a new store; opening a new branch; setting up a stall (at a festival, trade fair, etc.); setting up a booth; exhibiting
buying and eating sweets (esp. of children); between-meal snacking
boarding (a train, bus, etc.); getting into (e.g. a taxi)
company; firm; (Shinto) shrine; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.; incorporated body
last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier
paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern; snot bubble
visitor (to a shrine or temple)
scale; scales; bathroom scale; weighing machine
candied apple; toffee apple
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
to laugh off (a rumor, worries, etc.); to laugh away
to walk in on; to tread upon
turret; watchtower; high wooden stage; scaffolding; wooden frame (of a kotatsu); yagura
dancing; dance; iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance; eating live seafood (e.g. squid, ice gobies) while it is still moving; soft spot (in the skull of an infant)
machinery and materials; equipment; materials for manufacturing machinery
with a boom; with a crash; with a rumble
tone color; tone colour; tone quality; timbre
to begin to dance; to break into a dance
Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance
sense of unity; sense of oneness
student preparing for or taking examinations (usu. entrance exams); test-taker
grant; allowance; endowment; bestowal; assignment; conferment
social; societal; societary
to keep in mind; to memorize
to wait and see; to sit on the fence; to be noncommittal
jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; crumpling
guarantor; surety; sponsor; reference; bondsman
extraordinary; unusual; strange; unexpected
to be covertly swapped; to be replaced (e.g. with a counterfeit)
taking a picture or video of oneself (esp. with a smartphone camera); selfie; video selfie; self-taken picture
news; word; tidings; omen; foreboding; premonition
new life; fresh start; new routine
to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal (e.g. to the public); to urge; to exhort
to be crowded; to be packed; to be busy; to be piled up (of work); to be busy (with many things); to be packed (of one's schedule)
to call again; to call (someone) back
to find difficult to guess; to struggle to work out; to be unable to figure out
carrying (on one's person or in the hand); mobile phone; cell phone