section chief; laboratory manager; office head; room monitor
to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to
planning; devising (a plan); drafting; drawing up
important person; strategic person; key figure
pouring alcohol; person pouring alcohol (esp. a woman)
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
senior; elder; person older than oneself
to pay attention to another's needs; to attend to; to fuss about; to take into consideration
idleness; lack of application; lazy study habits
I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable; thank you very much (for help, etc.)
tatami room; tatami mat room; formal Japanese room; dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
presence; sitting with; being with
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
to be conspicuous; to stand out
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
first of all; at once; right away; for now; for the time being
center; centre; middle; Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)
to speak frankly; to put things bluntly
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
to force; to compel; to coerce; to press; to impose
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
structure; construction; posture (e.g. in martial arts); pose; readiness; determination
fat; tallow; lard; grease
egg white; white-fleshed fish (e.g. tai, hirame, karei); white meat; sapwood
to unravel; to untie; to break into small pieces (of fish, meat, etc.); to relax; to ease
external; foreign (e.g. relations); public (e.g. image)
to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)
to pin down; to hold down; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to get a hold of; to obtain
grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
feeling obliged; being grateful; being thankful; (arch.) shrinking back in fear
no!; no no!; no, not at all
unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all
frightening (of the future); worrying; scary; ominous; portentous