to compose; to put together
to look up at; to raise one's eyes; to look up to; to admire; to respect
by any chance; (should) it happen (that); by some chance
(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling
to look around; to survey
to make good; to improve; to do often; to be kind to; to treat well
periodic; regular; routine
each (person); everyone; individual; respective
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
earthenware; pottery; yakimono; flame-broiled food (esp. fish); tempered blade
to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach
painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
large country; major nation; great power; province of the highest rank (ritsuryo system)
annual (plant); first-year student
university student; college student
Nagano prefecture (Chūbu area)
hostel; dormitory; (arch.) bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) tea-ceremony room; (arch.) villa
boarder; boarding student
new building; new construction
outside the city area; suburbs
commuting to school; school commute
traffic; transportation; communication; exchange (of ideas, etc.); intercourse
inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
unclear; obscure; unknown; unidentified; ignorance; lack of wisdom
element (esp. component in electronics); elemental device; device; data; datum
alone; by oneself; on one's own
private room; single (room); room for one; (toilet) stall
individual; private person; personal; private
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
shopping; purchased goods
death; mortality; to die; to pass away
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
timewise; temporal; chronal