undesirable state brought about by (my) lack of virtue; feeling morally responsible; mea culpa
imperial portrait; photograph of the incumbent Emperor and Empress distributed to schools between 1890 and the end of the Second World War; portrait or photo of a person of high rank
other matters; other people's affairs
friendly relations; social relations; social life
to make advances (to); to woo; to work on someone
steel trap; foothold trap; bear trap
see you later; goodbye; sincerely
wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war
precautions against earthquake; anti-earthquake measures; antiearthquake procedures; earthquake countermeasures
recipe site; recipe website
the art of war; strategy; tactics
powdered sugar; icing sugar
triple; treble; threefold; three-ply; triplicate
from what I've heard; according to reports; from what they say
touching; moving (to tears)
(arch.) to annotate; to write down
fashionable thing; popular thing; craze
short supply; supply shortage
the bounds of reason; the limits of (common) sense