openly and secretly; helping in all ways
ignoring a text message by leaving it unopened and marked as "unread" (in online chatting)
flop (e.g. movie); total failure; box office bomb
web service; web services
party to welcome (e.g. new employees) and send off (e.g. retiring employees)
morning coat; cutaway coat; morning dress (as opposed to evening dress)
business school (in a university); faculty of commerce
epic film; big-budget movie
planning stage; planning stages
listening to once; hearing once
Saizeriya (abbr) (Italian restaurant chain)
figure of speech; rhetorical flourish
sole girl in a group of geeks
coffee shop that does not serve alcohol
to grumble over one's wine cups
making a loss; incurring a deficit
crossed eyes; convergent strabismus
plastic food models used by restaurants
to rip up (a seam); to burst; to tear; to break out (e.g. into a smile)
misedashi; debut of an apprentice geisha; ceremony in which a shikomi becomes a maiko
Golden Week (early-May holiday season in Japan)
middle grades of primary school (third and fourth grades)