offering a full report to a superior
sense of impending crisis; sense of danger
fastidiousness; faultfinding; nit-picking
town councillor; town council member
difficult (to obtain, receive permission, access, etc.); tough (to do, etc.)
bureaucratic organization; bureaucracy
(principle of) letting sleeping dogs lie; peace-at-any-price; don't rock the boat
to continue (for a long time); to occur in succession; to come next (e.g. on TV)
purificatory font at shrines and temples; kitchen; cupboard; room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed; vendor of drinking water; building for taking refuge during a flood
chest of drawers; bureau; cabinet; tansu; dresser
pot (esp. teapot, coffee-pot); vacuum bottle; thermos flask
aroma; fragrance; scent; smell
green tea; green leaf tea; non-powdered tea (as opposed to matcha); medium-grade green tea
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred
next; secondly; subsequently
second-year student; biennial
pitiful; heartbreaking; heartrending; touching; tragic; sad
genuine; authentic; true; real
turning over; flipping over; reply; response; marks written alongside characters in a classical Chinese text to indicate their ordering when read in Japanese; lapel
to be born (with); to be born (to be); to be destined
to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)
correction (of fault, defect, flaw, etc.); remedy; rectification; redress; reform
effect; result; worth; Kai (former province located in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)
long (time); longstanding; for a long time
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
true state; actual condition; reality
to continue without end; to go on to eternity
class teacher; homeroom teacher; form teacher
to ripen; to mature; to be ready for action; to be the right time (to act); to be in common use; to come to sound natural
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
pulverization; pulverisation; smashing; demolishing
autopsy; inquest; investigation of death
settlement (of affairs); remedial measures; cleaning up afterwards
post-traumatic stress disorder; PTSD