surname; family name; last name
parent; parents; dealer; banker; founder; inventor; (pet) owner
orphan; person without friends
to have a talk; to tell a story
plentiful; lot of; much; pile of
to wake up (someone; by calling out); to awaken; to bring back (e.g. memories); to evoke; to recall
wiping out; sweeping away; eradicating; dispelling
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
Japanese company active abroad; company partly funded by Japanese nationals
arrangement; preparations; search (by police)
school for Japanese outside of Japan
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
involuntarily; instinctively; without realizing; unconsciously
long mai (feng shui); longmai; the air or energy flowing down from an undulating mountain range
what kind of thing; anything (else); nothing (but)
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
evacuees; displaced persons; refugees
to look downwards (at); to lower one's gaze; to drop one's eyes
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
news; word; tidings; omen; foreboding; premonition
to leave; to go away; to pass; to elapse; to be distant; to send away; to drive off
lost child; lost person; stray child; missing child
helpless; forlorn; hopeless; unpromising; lonely; discouraging
alteration; falsification; faking
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
leap; jump; stepping out into the wider world; becoming active on a wider stage; rapid progress; dramatic development
unaware; unmindful; unconscious; blind; apathetic
certain evidence; definite evidence
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery genre; detective genre
to hide; to lie motionless in hiding
by all means; at all costs
large crowd; large herd; large flock; large school; large shoal; large swarm
either way; in any case; one way or another
(only) one option; one possible choice
swaying (only once, in a large, slow motion); relaxedly
what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
(many) trees; every tree; all kinds of trees