success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh
commerce; trade; business
August; eighth month of the lunar calendar
appearing one after another; cropping up one after another; occurring in succession
to be taken ill; to be addicted to; to become absorbed in; to give oneself up (to)
renewal; update; innovation; improvement
to miss (doing); to fail (to do)
announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known
opening to the public; making available to the public; putting on display; exhibiting; showing (play, movie, etc.); holding (interview, etc.)
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
(on the) net; (on the) Internet; (on the) Web
writing (e.g. as a profession)
upstart; parvenu; jumped-up person
to grow in intensity; to be aggravated; to get worse; to develop
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
Kanagawa prefecture (Kanto area)
author (usu. of a particular book); writer
to be of benefit; to be useful; to be good for you
creation; Creation (by God)
sanctuary; Sanctuary (faction of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan); Akamatsu faction; Akamatsu group
normalcy; normality; normal
to soothe one's soul; to raise one's spirits
to wake up; to awake; to awaken to (instinct, ability, perception, etc.); to become aware of; to come to one's senses
to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt feelings; to get damaged; to get chipped
to give a glance (at); to take one look at
to strain one's eyes; to look closely; to stare at
(distant) howling; backbiting
tribe; clan; (taxonomical) tribe; group (of the periodic table)
millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.)
to commit (e.g. crime); to perpetrate; to break (e.g. rule); to violate; to rape; to violate
flavor; flavour; charm; appeal; experience; taste (e.g. of victory)
to droop (e.g. ears of grain); to bow one's head; to hang one's head
to tuck one's tail between one's legs; to admit defeat; to turn tail (and run)
to waste; to treat shabbily; to treat frivolously; to handle roughly; to treat without respect